Summary
Vinesh Kannan is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years building user-centered frontends and efficient backends across healthcare, civic tech, and education. He has led product and platform work at Nuna and Google, reduced clinical burnout at Ambience Healthcare, and co-founded an edtech startup that was acquired. Vinesh teaches widely on ethics, epidemiology, machine learning, and digital art, and channels that interdisciplinary curiosity into projects like Panopticon, a virtual escape room exploring surveillance ethics that over 500 people have played. He combines hands-on coding and mentoring with a knack for translating complex technical and social problems into engaging experiences and practical systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of Technology
Schaumburg High School
Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy