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"name": "Amit Kumar",
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"url": "http://amitkumar.com",
"summary": "I'm a hands-on engineering leader, web software architect and entrepreneur.\n\nI'm happiest crafting beautiful, accessible and extensible web applications from the ground up, collaborating across disciplines to expand the horizon of the achievable. I've developed 30+ full-stack web apps as a coder and leader, always with a focus on delivering a thoughtful user experience to every customer.\n\nSpecialties: Full-stack architecture, Typescript, animations, javascript, React, node.js, mongoDB, next.js, Contentful, sanity.io, SQL, WebGL, d3.js, Agile management, accessibility, mentorship.\n\nI'm also a photographer and woodworker :)",
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"name": "Amit Kumar Consulting",
"position": "Software & Management Consultant",
"startDate": "2009-09-30",
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"summary": "Client projects include Nike, Microsoft, American Express, Verizon, Goldman Sachs, Sunrun, Prudential, Toyota, Pizza Hut, Dixie, Hitachi, L'Oreal, Hammerhead, Snap Kitchen, Hope Network, Counseling In Schools, and more.\n\nI lead development of full-stack web applications for clients ranging from pre-seed startups to Fortune 500 companies. Whether it's consulting on an idea, coding an MVP or leading an engineering team, I offer coding & management expertise to grow products & teams to their next stage.\n\nI cultivate teams aligned on best practices, coding guidelines, workflows, tooling, and knowledge-sharing. And I deliver codebases that are well-architected, well-documented, and extensible – designed to deliver now and grow with customer needs. \n\nSpecializing in full-stack web applications, design systems, responsive design, web animations, and Agile management.\n\nExpert in Typescript, React, node.js, HTML, CSS, Next.js, Storybook, mongoDB, D3, Three.JS, SQL, build systems, continuous delivery, accessibility, Agile.",
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"endDate": "2023-04-30",
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"summary": "Led a team of 6 engineers in developing a \"data storytelling\" product, which extracts insights from big data using AI and provides a Notion-like interface to author reports and visualizations.\n• Wrote the design system, leveraging Storybook, React Aria, vanilla-extract, and Radix components for maximum customizability and accessibility.\n• Architected the web client (React, Next.js)\n• Mentored junior developers in full-stack Typescript",
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"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"name": "Reciprocity Community",
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"summary": "Reciprocity Community was a community engagement platform that intelligently matched members’ asks and offers for advice, introductions, and resources. I was the bootstrapper, founder and CEO, leading product design, software architecture and operations.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/reciprocity-community/",
"location": "Palo Alto, California, United States"
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"name": "RTM Limited",
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"startDate": "2016-04-30",
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"summary": "Started the technology practice for a boutique design+branding+strategy consultancy.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/rtm-limited/",
"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"summary": "Collaborated closely with creative teams to push the boundaries of what we could deliver for clients on short timescales. Client projects included Toyota, Pizza Hut, Dixie, T-Mobile, Prudential, and BelVita.\n• As engineering lead of 3 on a promotional web campaign, blew minds by proposing and delivering a 3D WebGL-based experience on a 6-week timeline. Designed 3D animations.\n• As sole developer, delivered multiple full-stack prototypes and microsites.\n• Accessibility expert, helping refactor hundreds of web pages for ADA compliance (enabling use by screenreaders and other assistive technologies)",
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"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"summary": "Responsible for technical architecture for client projects, including dev-ops (hosting, scaling, continuous deployment), establishing coding guidelines, managing multiple 3rd-party service providers. Also responsible for mentoring junior developers in the craft of coding and working in the high-speed, high-pressure environment of a leading digital agency.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/digitas-uk/",
"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"name": "New York Code + Design Academy",
"position": "Javascript Instructor and Curriculum Developer",
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"summary": "I developed curriculum and taught the AngularJS 101 course. My class focused on taking novice and professional coders from 0 to 100 in modern web development. Subject matter included:\n• Project setup with Yeoman\n• Workflow with gulp, git, bower, sass\n• Continuous integration\n• Test-driven development with Karma, Jasmine, and Proctor\n• In-depth guidance on developing custom services, directives, filters, controllers and views\n• Integrating with Firebase and AngularFire\n• Integrating with any other backend through REST API's and Angular $resource\n• Animations with ngAnimate, GreenSock, Animate.css\n• Integrating 3rd party libraries, such as jQueryUI, into Angular\n• Data visualization with D3",
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"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"summary": "We worked to create a new kind of gardening: simple, social, and automated.\n\nI did all the startup CEO things. Vision, strategy, project management, operations, branding, marketing, engineering, construction.\n\nMy primary role was as the director of software, wherein I architected & developed the codebase for the Bitponics web service, including database, back-end, and front-end. Responsible for researching, implementing & documenting best practices for agile software development on the node.js + mongodb + AngularJS + D3 stack.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/bitponics/",
"location": "Brooklyn, New York, United States"
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"summary": "• Javascript developer for NIKEiD Mobile project, which brings the Nike iD shoe-building experience to mobile and tablet browsers. Responsible for the HTML5 shoe-rendering engine.\n• Lead front-end developer (HTML/CSS/Javascript) for http://yourguide.vzw.com, a Verizon website loaded on all new smartphones to educate customers on phone/plan options. Collaborated with design team to refine visuals and layout to take advantage of the Android and iPhone browsers’ HTML5/CSS3 capabilities, resulting in a site that was lightweight and adaptable to differing screen layouts and resolutions.\n• Sole front-end developer of an iPad-optimized website for \"10,000 Women\", a Goldman Sachs charitable initiative. Leveraged HTML5/CSS3 features to produce pixel-perfect rendering while reducing page load time through leaner markup and fewer HTTP requests.\n• Introduced use of sass CSS compiler (http://sass-lang.com), which greatly simplified writing and maintenance of CSS for a large-scale Verizon web project.\n• Front-end developer for Nike BOOM app on Android.",
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"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"name": "Barnes & Noble",
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"summary": "• Collaborated with design and product teams to develop new textbook product page. \n• Introduced new patterns for custom animations and real-time data updates.\n• Proposed and implemented first social network integration on product pages",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/barnes-&-noble/",
"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"name": "Blenderbox, Inc.",
"position": "Software Developer",
"startDate": "2009-09-30",
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"summary": "Blenderbox is a digital agency that blends strategy, design and technology to create innovative and successful digital experiences.\n\n• Created modular .NET grid components that were put in use across all new ASP.NET MVC projects.\n• Developed CMS and front-end for http://govtcontracts.open.com using ASP.NET MVC, strictly adhering to MVC best practices, which resulted in a highly flexible architecture that easily adapted to rapidly changing product requirements.\n• Developed News and Grants search pages for http://rockefellerfoundation.org. Used ASP.NET MVC & jQuery for the front-end, LINQ and Castle ActiveRecord for the back-end.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/blenderbox/",
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"summary": "Mimeo.com is a leading on-demand printing service, where customers can submit digital documents, proof and print them, and have them shipped anywhere in the US next-day. \n\n• Led end-to-end development of a redesigned, customer-facing document builder tool where users could choose printing options, reorganize document content, and see a continuously updated view of their document. \n• Developed a highly interactive Javascript-based front-end using jQuery, MS Ajax Library and YUI. Used MVC as the design principle for the Javascript code. Wrote the corresponding web service layer (WCF) and data-access layer (LINQ To Entities). \n• Worked closely with Information Architecture team to help evaluate, design and develop user interactions. Used jQuery to rapidly prototype drag & drop, animations, and DOM manipulation. \n• Created simple, reusable Javascript components that streamlined development across the site. These included a templating pattern, a custom YUI treeview component, jQuery layout controls and a dropdown control.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/mimeo.com/",
"location": "New York, New York, United States"
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"name": "Integrated Tech",
"position": "Web Software Engineer",
"startDate": "2006-03-31",
"endDate": "2007-08-31",
"highlights": [],
"summary": "Integrated Tech offers end-to-end business software solutions for small businesses.\n\n• Collaborated closely with clients to design and develop small business websites with VB.NET 2.0, SQL Server 2000, HTML, and CSS. \n• Initiated practice of iterative prototyping, with weekly demos to clients, which greatly increased customer satisfaction and reduced code rewrites. \n• Overhauled a legacy reservations system database, porting it from MS Access to SQL Server 2000. Increased normalization across the database to increase scalability and eliminate data anomalies, incorporating stored procedures and user-defined functions to ensure consistent data access. \n• Migrated an Access/VBA application to VB.NET.",
"location": "Irvine, California, United States"
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"name": "Systems Technology, Inc., Hawthorne",
"position": "Software Engineering Intern",
"startDate": "2004-09-30",
"endDate": "2005-12-31",
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"summary": "STI produces driving and parachuting simulators and provides mechanics analysis. \nhttp://www.systemstech.com/\n\n• Designed and developed C++/DirectX classes that interfaced with Visual Basic code to provide functionalities not available in VB/DirectX, including 3D sound and Force Feedback. These were used in a driving simulator used in research labs across the country. \n• Edited waveforms used for driving simulator sound effects using Cool Edit Pro. \n• Wrote a how-to guide for Cool Edit Pro.",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/systemstechinc/",
"location": "Los Angeles, California, United States"
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"organization": "WaterAid",
"position": "Software Engineer",
"startDate": "2016-02-28",
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"summary": "Helped with technical features and bug fixes for http://wateraidnicaragua.org/.",
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"url": "http://wateraidnicaragua.org/"
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"institution": "Stanford University Graduate School of Business",
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"references": [
{
"name": "Ezra Lee",
"reference": "I was Head of Product when I worked with Amit at Capitol AI. He has a solution oriented mindset and a clear and concise communication style, that made him a highly effective engineering leader to partner with. \nDuring our partnership, he led the migration to a React / Typescript frontend while keeping product velocity high through his technical planning and execution. Looking back, his ability to provide mentorship to his engineering team was a key component of his ability to lead high quality and high velocity execution over longer time horizons. He also initiated broader org education sessions across product, design and engineering that made for better cross functional collaboration and culture. He led us through many key product milestones and his attention to detail on the user experience was invariant throughout. I'd highly recommend Amit as an engineer team leader."
},
{
"name": "Scott Lederer",
"reference": "Any org would benefit from the calm, collected, mature presence Amit brings to the table, not to mention his deep technical chops. He executes reliably and transparently at strategic, managerial, operational, architectural, and tactical levels.\n\nSpeaking as a UX professional, it was a joy to collaborate with Amit at the intersection of design and dev, where he consistently offers thoughtful suggestions and technical guidance, without ever pushing an agenda. And as a fellow org leader, I could always count on Amit as a sounding board, sanity check, and dev whisperer. He is a design ally and a top notch colleague."
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"name": "Mark Lam",
"reference": "I had the pleasure of working with Amit while he led the engineering team at Capitol AI. Amit was instrumental in growing the front-end team. He implemented code quality standards and peer-review workflows. He also drove the front-end design system library architecture and introduced the front-end team to Storybook for UI development and testing to ensure the system is accessible and adaptable.\n\nHe has a proven track record of providing technical direction and driving initiatives to completion by getting alignment between senior leadership, product managers, and adjacent engineering teams. Amit is skilled at both technical and people leadership, which is evident in his ability to inspire and motivate the team to achieve great results by fostering a culture of feedback and communication through his mentorship.\n\nI wholeheartedly recommend Amit to any organization as he is an exceptional leader who is thoughtful of his direct reports and organizational needs."
},
{
"name": "Gunther Koo",
"reference": "It has been amazing working with Amit on the AMEX Journeymakers. Not only is he a very talented developer, he is also an amazing teacher. I've learned a tremendous amount in the past three months working with Amit. I highly recommend Amit for any projects you are seeking an experienced full stack developer. I truly can't thank him enough for all that he has taught me and made me a better front end developer. Thank you Amit! "
},
{
"name": "Bailey Bei Peng",
"reference": "I took an AngularJS course at the NYCDA taught by Amit. He was clear, thorough, and articulate in his concise lectures, leaving most of the class for practical, hands-on coding exercises. His extensive experience as a software engineer/hacker/entrepreneur made this class that much more pragmatic and real world problem-driven as he covered not just the details of AngularJS but also the ins and outs of modern frontend development. He's also extremely patient helping junior engineers get up to speed by staying late to mentor them and answering questions on hipchat. I had a very pleasant experience taking Amit's class and would recommend him to any companies looking for a solid, entrepreneurial-spirited engineer/architect."
},
{
"name": "Jack Bishop",
"reference": "I've worked with Amit off and on for several years. From large-scale javascript apps for Fortune 500 companies, to side projects and IoT start ups, Amit is always a cornerstone member of the team. Balancing grand vision with practical efficient technical solutions is Amit's bread and butter. You should jump at the chance to work with Amit."
},
{
"name": "Lloyd Chambrier",
"reference": "I was fortunate to be a part of the AngularJS course taught by Amit. He was able to communicate the concepts and features of AngularJS effectively and he always took the time to answer the questions of everyone so the entire class would move forward at the same pace. \r\n\r\nWhen we were working on assignments and personal projects, he was also very good at using his experience with AngularJS to recommend the best way to get things done. He was also able to make our learning experience enjoyable and kept the entire class engaged from the beginning of the class until the end.\r\n\r\nAs a web developer, he’s very knowledgeable and as a teacher he’s both passionate and patient with his students. I look forward to see him again at The New York Code + Design Academy and take another class."
},
{
"name": "Zi J Chen",
"reference": "I took an Angular course taught by Amit. Amit is a good teacher and he definitely knows his stuff. We had cover basic angular topics as well as more advanced topics likes unit testing and directives. Amit usually had an answer when the class asked him a question on the spot. \r\n\r\nI went from having no experience in Angular to contributing on projects using Angular at work."
},
{
"name": "Samuel Albert",
"reference": "I had the privilege of taking Amit’s AngularJs course and it was one of the best learning experiences I’ve had to date. Amit is an excellent teacher and the enthusiasm and energy he brought to each class made the sixteen-session boot camp both enjoyable and fun. His dedication to developing an exciting curriculum was apparent from the first class and continued through the small exercises and workshops in the home material. \r\n\r\nAs a teacher, one of Amit’s most notable characteristics is his patience. He was able to quickly asses the students to recognize when someone was struggling, help them one-on-one, and bring them back up to speed with the rest of the group. I applaud him on his ability to keep every developer engaged given the range of expertise in our class.\r\n\r\nI look forward to seeing what Amit does next. He’s one of the most talented developers I’ve had the pleasure of meeting and I hope to take another class with him soon. "
},
{
"name": "Abigail Watson",
"reference": "Having had the great fortune to meet Amit and review the amazing work he’s done with Bitponics, I’m happy to recommend him as an excellent teacher, consultant, and as having a mastery of full-stack Javascript development (including Node, Mongo, Express, and Angular.js). \r\n\r\nAmit took a hobby of his and used it as an opportunity to teach himself the latest programming techniques in NoSQL and full-stack javascript programming, and produced a simply incredible aquaponic grow system in his last startup. Amit was both personable and professional when we came onsite to GroveLabs to share his experiences (both good and bad) of running a startup, and developing hardware and software for the urban gardening/farming market. Having used full-stack javascript ourselves, our entire team was impressed throughout the day at what all he had accomplished with Bitponics. Truly an impressive amount of work. \r\n\r\nWe wish Amit all the best in his future endeavors, as he steps away from the urban farming and aquaponics industry, and are happy to recommend his work without reservation. If you have freelancing or consulting positions available for full-stack javascript, please consider Amit as being an expert in the field. "
}
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"name": "NIKEiD Mobile",
"startDate": "2011-08-31",
"summary": "My main responsibility was writing the shoe-rendering engine, with a focus on creating extremely optimized code and front-end assets so that we could deliver a responsive and visually rich experience even on devices with limited resources.",
"url": "http://nikeid.com",
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