Amit Merchant
Systems Analyst at AmitMerchant.com
Surat, Gujarat, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Merchant is a full-stack web developer and Senior Analyst with 12 years of experience building and refining user-facing applications and tooling from Surat, India. He blends hands-on engineering—demonstrated by his full-stack work on the Electron Markdownify app adding HTML preview, toolbar features, emoji support and PDF export—with product sensibilities gained from roles spanning engineering, project management, and technical writing. As a Google Developer Expert and long-time tech blogger at amitmerchant.com, he communicates complex ideas clearly and often publishes practical tutorials and essays. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, Amit has a track record of refactoring legacy code and shipping quality UX improvements. Outside of work he’s an amateur gardener and self-described occasional sleep talker, a detail that hints at his curious, tinkering nature.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at Sarvajanik College of Engineering & Technology
Stackoverflow
51reputation
7kreached
6answers
2questions
Github Skills (20)
markdown10
editors10
javascript10
electron10
editor10
markdown-it10
html10
css9
nodejs9
desktop8
callback6
api6
php6
context-menu6
android6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
amitmerchant1990/electron-markdownify
Apr 2016 - Nov 2022
:closed_book: A minimal Markdown editor desktop app
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1 review, 221 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Amit significantly contributed to the `electron-markdownify` project by implementing new features and refactoring existing code. They added support for previewing raw HTML and integrated a native menubar with default options, enhancing the application's functionality. They also implemented toolbar features for formatting markdown, added the ability to toggle side-by-side panels, and integrated emoji support. Further work included refactoring code, improving UI elements, and enabling the saving of files as PDF.
emojireactelectronjqueryclosed
sudheer-k-bhat/sudheer-k-bhat.github.io
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
http://sudheer-k-bhat.github.io
Contributions:122 commits in 1 year 10 months
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