Amit Prasad
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorAmit Prasad is a systems-focused software engineer with a decade of experience spanning startups, research, and enterprise internships, currently serving as a Member Of Technical Staff — Systems at Modal in the New York City metro area. He founded Entropic Labs and has held software architect and engineer roles at Kujira, Terraform Labs, and Bloomberg, pairing entrepreneurship with hands-on delivery of distributed systems and backend infrastructure. He blends research rigor from Harvard Medical School and a Master of Computer Science from UIUC with a bias for building scalable, reliable tech and innovative engineering solutions. An active open-source contributor, he advanced the dylanaraps/pywal project by adding back-end color manipulation features (lighten/darken/saturate) and regex-based percentage parsing, improving export and template generation. Notably, his experience includes leading technical work across startups and labs, combining architecture leadership with practical coding, and a track record of shipping across diverse domains. Based in NYC, he leverages a strong foundation in computer science from UIUC to drive impact in systems engineering and product development.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
colorize10
python10
templater10
template-engine10
colors10
regular-expression10
color-transform10
text-processing10
regular-expressions10
colours10
colormap10
file-io9
fileio9
wal9
file-access9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dylanaraps/pywal
Dec 2019 - Dec 2019
🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 1 PR in 4 days
Contributions summary:Amit primarily contributed to the `pywal` project by adding functionality to modify colors using methods such as `.lighten(%)`, `.darken(%)`, and `.saturate(%)`. Their work involved modifying the `export.py` and `util.py` files to integrate color manipulation logic, including the implementation of regex for percentage parsing. They also cleaned up code and added comments, focusing on the color manipulation and template generation aspects of the project.
terminal-emulatorscolor-schemeson-the-flywalschemes
EntropicLabs/entropy_beacon_contracts
Aug 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 releases, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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