Sauren Khosla
Lead Product Engineer at OpenEvidence
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSauren Khosla is a pragmatic lead product engineer in San Francisco with six years of experience building data-driven products and teams from early-stage startups to research settings. He blends product instincts (as a founder/CEO whose company was acquired) with hands-on engineering, shipping backend systems, test automation, and ML-informed features. A Stanford MS in CS and a strong math background underpin roles teaching CS229/CS224N and mentoring students, signaling both depth and an ability to explain complex ideas. He’s an active open-source contributor to InfluxData’s Flux language, adding functions, hardening type conversions, and fixing edge-case panics—work that improves real-world time-series query reliability. Comfortable toggling between code, product strategy, and pedagogy, he prioritizes listening first and building second to deliver pragmatic, reliable systems. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who surfaces non-obvious failure modes (e.g., null handling and divide-by-zero errors) before they reach production.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hawken SchoolMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (7)
testing10
fluxor10
go10
flux10
error-handling9
type-conversion9
algorithms8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
influxdata/flux
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
Flux is a lightweight scripting language for querying databases (like InfluxDB) and working with data. It's part of InfluxDB 1.7 and 2.0, but can be run independently of those.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 commits, 47 PRs, 206 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sauren primarily contributed to the `influxdata/flux` repository by writing test cases for type conversions and adding new functions, like the mode() function, and power operator. They also fixed identified issues such as throwing an appropriate error when dividing by zero and now properly consider nulls when calculating mode. Furthermore, the user's work extends to the addition of a year function to the date package, as well as, fixing a holt-winters panic.
databasedatabasesinfluxdbscripting-language
sauren-khosla/alakazam-ui
Oct 2024 - Nov 2025
Contributions:39 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
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