Hi! I'm Esaw Adhana.

Stanford '27 / B.S. & M.S. Computer Science

I'm studying CS at Stanford. This past summer, I worked as a founding engineer at Human Behavior, an AI product analytics startup. In previous summers, I worked as a SWE at Google and Uber. On the side, I love building consumer-facing apps: lately, I built Stanford Root, a course-planning app used by 7k+ Stanford students.

Experience

Human Behavior

Jun. 2026 – Present

Founding Engineer · AI product analytics startup (YC X25)

Scaled the ClickHouse-backed ingestion pipeline to 78K sessions/day, serving 10+ customers at $100K+ ARR
Designed the runtime that lets customers deploy scheduled analytics agents to Slack, SMS, and email

Google

Jun. 2025 – Sep. 2025

Software Engineering Intern · On-Device Abuse Protection

Cut abuse protection rollout times from hours to minutes for 20+ teams by consolidating redundant deploy steps

Uber

Jun. 2024 – Sep. 2024

Software Engineering Intern · Matching Intent

Implemented a cross-sell pop-up offering Wait & Save to UberX riders to reduce high-demand matching churn

Projects

Stanford Root

Jan. 2026 – Present

Course discovery mobile + web app for the Stanford student community

Built a Stanford course discovery platform now used by 7,000+ students, grown by word of mouth
Added multi-filter search, waitlist and enrollment tracking, and schedule sync across devices

stanfordroot.comNext.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Supabase

Let 'em Cook

Sep. 2025 – Dec. 2025

Social cooking app for young adults, focus on building community and trying new things

Built social mobile app allowing users to create + join cooking competitions with fellow users and then cook and digitally share their creations with one another
Led our four-person team through all stages of the CS 147 design cycle, from early prototyping to final product, incorporating user feedback throughout, and winning the Best Demo Award for our final app

Demo videoReact Native, TypeScript, Supabase

MonkeyHouse

Apr. 2025 – Jun. 2025

Roommate matching web app for interns moving to a new city for the summer

Shipped an intern roommate matching web app that pairs users on survey-driven compatibility
Designed a weighted scoring engine with OpenAI free-text parsing to flag preference conflicts and rank matches

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Firebase, OpenAI API

ScentSync

Jan. 2025 – Mar. 2025

Eco-friendly beauty routine recommender built on the EWG product database

Launched an eco-friendly routine recommender over 1,000+ Environmental Working Group (EWG) beauty products
Engineered a web scraping module to collect, structure, and query product data from the EWG database

Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, MongoDB, OpenAI API

PropaGONE

Apr. 2024 – Jun. 2024

Chrome extension integrating Claude to detect propaganda and manipulative language

Developed a Chrome extension using Claude that flags and explains manipulative language in news articles
Added thumbs up/down feedback to tune prompts and few-shot examples to improve detection accuracy

Read PaperReact, Python, JavaScript, Claude API

About

Languages: TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, C, C++, SQL, HTML, CSS
Frameworks: Next.js, React, React Native, Node.js, Tailwind CSS, REST APIs, Puppeteer, Cheerio
Data: ClickHouse, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Supabase, Firebase
AI and Infrastructure: OpenAI API, Claude API, MCP, AWS (S3), Docker, Git, GitHub
Interests: Spanish (B2), investing, poker, weightlifting, bouldering, bullet chess, coffee

Contact

I'm always interested in hearing about new opportunities, interesting projects, or just connecting to meet someone new!

[email protected]