Keyan R.

Software Engineer at Descript

Keyan R. has been working in the software engineering field since 2016. Keyan began their career as a Software Developer Intern at ApplyBoard. Keyan then worked as a Software QA Engineer Intern at Apple in 2017. That same year, they also worked as a Software Developer Intern at DarkMatter LLC, where they reduced encryption and decryption runtimes by 3.3x and 3.9x respectively by implementing a new opportunistic locking algorithm for concurrent messaging. In 2018, they worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Waterloo, and as a Software Engineer Intern at Microsoft, where they created the backend for an email autoexpiry feature in C#. In 2019, they worked as a Software Engineer Intern at both Google and NVIDIA. As of 2020, they have been working as a Software Engineer at Citadel Securities. In 2022, they are expected to begin working as a Software Engineer at Descript.

Keyan R. attended the University of Waterloo from 2015 to 2020, where they obtained a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering.

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Descript builds simple and powerful collaborative tools for new media creators. They strive to eliminate the tedious work that often stands between an idea and its expression, so that creators can focus on developing their craft instead of their usage of tools. Descript is a next generation digital media platform that offers a new "engine"​ that lets you edit audio by editing text (instead of waveforms).