Amanuel Odicho
Senior Software Engineer at Smartsheet
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolAmanuel Odicho is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with six years of experience building full-stack web applications and improving user-facing interfaces. He blends a strong academic foundation (4.0 CS degree from UIC) with hands-on product experience at companies like Qualtrics and Smartsheet, where he progressed rapidly from Software Engineer to Senior Software Engineer. Amanuel is passionate about teaching and mentorship—evidenced by multiple tutoring and section leader roles—and brings that mindset to engineering through clear, maintainable front-end work and collaboration. He contributes to open-source projects such as typehero, focusing on UI polish, mobile fixes, caching, and prefetching to improve developer communities around TypeScript. Known for solving UX edge cases and shipping pragmatic refactors, he pairs curiosity and craft to turn complex problems into elegant, user-centric solutions.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Transfer, Computer Science, Transfer, Computer Science at Oakton Community CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at University of Illinois at Chicago
English, Spanish, assyrian, syriac, Arabic, Norwegian, Swedish
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Github Skills (8)
typescript10
nextjs10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-design9
css9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
typehero/typehero
Sep 2023 - Nov 2024
Connect, collaborate, and grow with a community of TypeScript developers
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 70 PRs, 135 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Amanuel contributed significantly to the frontend development of the `typehero/typehero` repository, specifically focusing on UI improvements and bug fixes. Their work included addressing mobile resolution issues in the comment section, refactoring, and adding caching mechanisms. They also worked on implementing a challenge collapsible sidebar and fixing Radix Tabs. Furthermore, they updated the styling and added prefetching.
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odicho/typehero
Sep 2023 - Dec 2023
Connect, collaborate, and grow with a community of TypeScript developers
Contributions:80 pushes, 35 branches in 2 months
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