3x founder

Rahul Pandey

Coding Data at Handshake AI. Founder at Taro. Prev Meta, Stanford, Pinterest

Co-founder

Taro· Summer 2022 San Francisco Bay Area

in LinkedIn 𝕏 @rpandey1234

2026Director of Engineering· Handshake

Founder · since 2014

Company

Handshake

Role

Director of Engineering

current

Stage

—

no public source

Raised

—

no public source

Based

San Francisco, California, United States

current

Founder / co-founder — the company's markEmployee / research role

Source: LinkedIn work history

Profile coverage5 of 7 · missing posts, contact

Taro

Help high-growth tech companies hire strong engineers

Summer 2022

Experience

Career

Handshake
Director of Engineering · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2026
Handshake
General Manager, Coding · San Francisco, California, United States · 2025 – 2026
2025
Taro (YC S22)
Co-founder
Co-Founder/CEO · Palo Alto, California, United States · 2022 – Present
2022
Maven
Course Instructor · 2023 – 2024
2023
Tech Career Growth Community - Alex & Rahul
Co-founder
Co-Founder · The Internet · 2021 – 2024
2021
Meta
Tech Lead + Manager · Menlo Park, CA · 2017 – 2022
2017
Stanford University
Adjunct Lecturer · Stanford, California, United States · 2020 – 2022
2020
CodePath.org
Android Instructor and Curriculum Developer · 2017 – 2020
2017
Pinterest
Software Engineer · San Francisco, CA · 2015 – 2017
2015
Kosei
Founder
Founding Engineer · Palo Alto, CA · 2014 – 2015
2014
Stanford University
Research Assistant · Stanford, CA · 2013 – 2014
2013
Facebook
Software Engineer · Menlo Park, CA · 2013
2013
Stanford University
Section Leader · Stanford, CA · 2011 – 2013
2011
Walmart eCommerce
Member of Technical Staff · San Bruno, CA · 2012
2012

Bio

Founder of Taro (joinTaro.com) to enable better careers for engineers. Taught mobile dev at Stanford, ran a YT channel with 120K subscribers, and taught courses on Taro, LI Learning, and Codepath. I previously worked at Meta + Pinterest, and I spend most of my free time playing pickleball.