aleena khan


senior software engineer, based in new york city

khan.arhum.a@gmail.com • linkedin • github

experience

  1. currently a senior software engineer @ personio. (2025) - currently building the agentic backend for the ai assistant with kotlin, python, and postgresql.
  2. previously @ zendesk (2021-2024) on the views team, improving saved-search performance with ruby on rails and elasticsearch.
  3. B.S in computer science from Queens College, CUNY, where I also got my start as an intern @ teladoc health.

projects

  • movie review classifier -- a classifier that performs sentiment analysis of movie reviews as either negative/positive using a from-scratch naive bayes model (using bag-of-word features with add-one smoothing.) python.
  • bézout calculator -- a program that expresses the gcd of two integers as a linear combination (utilizing bézout's lemma). java.