Ahmad Sandoval-kanawi
Software Development Manager III at Twitch
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAhmad Sandoval-kanawi is a Software Development Manager III with a decade of experience leading front-end engineering and framework maintenance for Twitch’s desktop web client. He directs a team that evangelizes frontend best practices and improves developer experience across a million+ line TypeScript/React/Apollo GraphQL codebase while coordinating security, availability, privacy, and accessibility standards for dozens of product teams. A hands-on leader, he previously contributed tens of thousands of production lines, built the Jest testing framework and developer productivity tools, and serves as the primary AppSec contact and threat-model steward for Twitch’s largest codebase. He balances long-term roadmap strategy and run-the-business decisions with hiring and mentoring engineers to scale impact. Based in Los Angeles, he brings an unusual mix of deep front-end craftsmanship, platform stewardship, and real-world operational security ownership. Outside of work he’s an avid cyclist and certified Cicerone who enjoys hiking redwoods and hunting Mojave mine sites with his family.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Developer Program, Software Development, Full Stack Developer Program, Software Development at CodesmithBS, Electrical Engineering, BS, Electrical Engineering at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (48)
emotion9
babel-plugin9
react8
date-parser8
css-in-js8
css8
timeago8
composition8
debugging7
redux7
high-performance7
angular6
angularfire6
dates6
typescript6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bartlett705/reduxifyChrome
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:83 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
chrome-extensionchrome
bartlett705/vanatu
Oct 2018 - Apr 2020
node app -> vpc deploy agent leveraging github actions
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
vpcagentleveragingnode-appnodejs
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