Tech Lead Staff Software Engineer at HireFormation.com
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Amit Bansil is a Boston-based Tech Lead and Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building full-stack web applications and domain-specific simulation tools. He architects type-safe systems using Next.js, TypeScript, tRPC and Postgres, and recently designed a proprietary ODM to optimize multitenancy and query performance for a flagship EHR while shipping complex modules on aggressive timelines. A longtime front-end specialist who also contributes to mobile SDK projects (notably refactoring the iOS component of Branch’s deep-linking Cordova plugin), he blends UI craftsmanship with backend reliability. As a freelance founder at HireFormation he hires and mentors teams, and as an advisor helped a defense startup scale into MassChallenge and early hires. His background spans computational chemistry simulations to secure large-data transfer tools, reflecting an unusual mix of scientific computation, product design, and startup-scale delivery. He’s equally comfortable pairing on VSCode with React/TypeScript as he is sketching data models to meet demanding production SLAs.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics, B.A. Mathematics at Boston University
North Cascades Glacier Mountaineering, North Cascades Glacier Mountaineering at NOLS
Swift, Swift at Recurse Center
Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Y Combinator
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Buckingham Browne & Nichols School
The Branch Cordova Ionic Phonegap SDK for deep linking and attribution. Branch helps mobile apps grow with deep links / deeplinks that power paid acquisition and re-engagement campaigns, referral programs, content sharing, deep linked emails, smart banners, custom user onboarding, and more.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:179 commits, 16 PRs, 60 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Amit primarily focused on refactoring and updating the iOS component of the Branch deep linking SDK. They worked on automatically setting header paths, generating iOS references in the plugin.xml based on build targets, and adding scripts to update iOS dependencies. Several commits involved modifying iOS-specific code, including core files like BranchSDK.h and AppDelegate+BranchSdk.m, integrating with the BranchNPM.h, which indicates efforts to support different deployment configurations.
Contributions:29 commits, 1 push in 2 years 6 months
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Amit Bansil - Tech Lead Staff Software Engineer at HireFormation.com