Aryan Naraghi

Hi! I’m Aryan. I’m a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.

Before that, I spent most of my career at Google, from 2012 to 2021 and again from 2023 to 2026, where I contributed to BigQuery, App Engine, Google Analytics, and Compute Engine.

In between my two stretches at Google, I was at Restaurant Brands International from 2021 to 2023, where I led their data platform team.

I studied computer science at the University of Washington’s Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science, graduating in 2011.

Talks

• From 20 Nanoseconds to One: Optimizing Bishop, Rook, and Queen Move Generation in a Chess Engine C++Now, May 5, 2026 slides

Projects

A selection of things I’ve built, past and present:

• YoSlash, memorable URL aliases for enterprises
• EpochZone
• FollyChess, a UCI-compatible chess engine written in C++23
• Seam carving demo
• A collaborative paint program
• VFR or Not, an Android quiz app for pilots
• difflib, a diffing library for Go
• Visual illusions:
  • Forest-fire model
  • The Café wall illusion
  • The Zöllner optical illusion
  • Non-parallel-looking checkerboard
  • Vector field
• More on GitHub