Help us change the world
We're a diverse team of interns from all across the world, and all of us are dedicated to building technology to transform education.
Khan Academy is hiring interns year-round!
Meet our interns
Annie
Software Engineer Intern [2013]
When Annie isn't battling the forces of darkness with her D20s, she collects novelty socks. She is deeply passionate about puzzle solving and education and is eager to help make content management more user friendly this summer.
Matt
Software Engineer Intern [2013]
Matt loves making things. He just can't help it. He's spending the summer helping students identify what skills they should learn and better master those skills—vicariously, of course, through the system he's making.
He's a Computer Science major at Rice University and has a deep, abiding love for learning, discovery, and building tools that help real people solve real problems. In other words, he's right where he belongs.
Robert
Software Engineer Intern [2013]
Robert is working on data analysis and visualization to make drawing insights a pleasure. He has passion for highly efficient and beautiful programs. He definitely spends too much time practicing ballroom dancing.
Previously he interned at an investment bank which he helped move to a web-oriented architecture. He is currently a student at Imperial College London.
Aatash
Software Engineer Intern [2013]
Aatash really believes in the idea that schooling shouldn't interfere with your education. It's why he is so excited to be helping Khan Academy reinvent learning.
Aatash is an Electrical Engineering/Computer Science major at UC Berkeley. He's an avid basketball fan, and is always down for a 1-on-1 challenge. LeBron?
Joshua
Software Engineer Intern [2013]
Joshua is working with Matt Faus and the Coach and Class team to help share information about student effort and progress on the Class Profile view.
Joshua is studying Software Engineering at the University of Waterloo and has previously interned at a major Canadian fruit company, where he made the web faster.
Tabitha
Graphic Design Intern [2013]
Tabitha loves designing things so that they're accessible and fun to use. In her free time she loves learning about people, reading angsty literature, traveling, doodling, and eating cheesecake. She studies at RISD and Brown University and has previously interned at Apple and Konami.
Omar
Software Engineer Intern [2011, 2012]
Omar makes useful things that work. He started working on exercises way back in high school; he's been hooked on the vision ever since.
In his free time, depending on when you ask, he might be a student at Stanford, a Thiel Fellow, or something completely different. He likes puns, Pokémon games, history, and prime-numbered phones.
Ben
Software Engineer Intern [2011, 2012]
Ben does his best to be everywhere at once and tries to fix problems wherever they pop up.
When he's not working on things for Khan Academy, Ben studies at Carnegie Mellon, where he's double-majoring in computer science and math.
David
Software Engineer Intern [2011, 2012]
David is a human being currently living on Earth. He was born after the Big Bang and before the heat death of the universe.
David has also interned twice at Khan Academy and twice at Google.
David regrets that he was not also named "Ben".
Jamie
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Jamie works with John to build the infrastructure for the computer science curriculum.
Jamie was previously an intern at Facebook before being recruited by University of Waterloo Software Engineering classmate and programming contest teammate David.
Josh
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Josh is helping to collect more data on how people use Khan Academy so we can see how changes we make to the site affect what users do on it. He's also helping to use the data we collect to improve users' experiences while visiting the site.
Josh is a Computer Science major (class of 2015) at Carnegie Mellon University.
Ankit
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Ankit loves to create new things. At Khan Academy, he is working on building up the community.
He is currently doing a Masters in Computer Science at Virginia Tech, specializing in human computer interaction. Previously, he has participated twice in the Google Summer of Code program.
Emily
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Emily is a Computer Science and Math major in the University of Rochester class of 2015. When not found hunched over her computer installing a Linux distro or learning an obscure programming language, she also enjoys bike rides, cooking, and playing video games.
Arun
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Arun builds tools to make your exercise experience better. He is studying electrical engineering and computer science at MIT. He spent some time at Google, Intel and Procter & Gamble, as well as two social enterprises in India. He loves music and plays many different instruments.
Mark
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Carved from the marbled cliffs of Elysium by the roaring surf below, Mark prefers his sandwiches open-faced. He works on exercises.
Leah
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Leah is a computer science major at MIT in the class of 2013. She's working on improving coach reports at Khan Academy. She's had internships at Google and Rapleaf and enjoys softball, ice hockey, rock climbing, board games, and traveling.
Jessica
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Jessica eats tons of candy and teaches compooter science at Khan Academy!
She is a senior at Brown University, where her favorite things are baking pies and making silly skits about programming.
Mary
Graphic Design Intern [2012]
Mary is the design intern at Khan Academy, and currently attends the Rhode Island School of Design (conveniently shortened to RISD; pronounced "riz-dee"), located in Providence, Rhode Island (which is 3% larger at low tide). In her free time, she likes to design custom lettering, make books, and pump iron.
Drew
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Drew is committed to developing tools that will help students share their knowledge with one another. He works on the community-building software at Khan Academy.
Drew is also an avid learner himself as a rising junior at Gunn High School. Prior to joining Khan Academy, he built mobile apps as an intern at Sony Ericsson. He's also a runner and a cellist.
Dylan
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
Dylan is spending the summer on Khan Academy's App Engine team helping to make the site faster and more reliable for everyone.
He will graduate in 2013 with a B.S. in Computer Science from UCLA. Prior to Khan Academy he worked at the UCLA Center for Embedded Networked Sensing.
Jamie
Software Engineer Intern [2012]
When he's not hacking on cool stuff at Khan Academy, working on his thesis in Cognitive Science at UCSD, or helping to create thisCourse.com, Jamie loves to travel. He has slept overnight in a temple in Taiwan, in a monastery in Austria, in a cave on the Acropolis in Athens, on a staircase, on top of a volcano, on the roof of a train station, in a garbage bin, in a playground in Hiroshima, and in numerous closets.
Jeff
Software Engineer Intern [2011]
Jeff spent the summer helping build Khan Academy's exercise framework and working with its community of open-source developers. Jeff obsesses over Zelda and Digimon, is one of the few left-handed color-blind redheads, and studied Computer Science and Math at Wesleyan University. Khan Academy lent him his first Mac, and he now works at Apple.