Anand Eng-thakker
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Desmos
Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnand Eng-thakker is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, user-facing systems and developer tools across mapping, search, and front-end ecosystems. He has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Mapbox GL Native and Mapbox GL JS, improving iOS rendering, shader precision, and GeoJSON tiling/query features that power interactive maps. His background blends full-stack engineering—browserifying Node libraries, improving build/test infrastructure, and refining documentation tooling—with a strong front-end focus on UX features such as HTML previews and CSS linting. Anand pairs production engineering at companies like Desmos, Amplify, and Mapbox with a history in education and research-driven projects, bringing clarity to complex problems and mentoring teams. Notably, his early work experimented with ML for satellite imagery to automate mapping, reflecting a practical curiosity for applying cutting-edge techniques to open-data problems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
NC School of Science and MathMaster of Education (MEd), Master of Education (MEd) at Harvard Graduate School of EducationBS Mathematics and Computer Science, BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (51)
webgl10
javascript10
ios10
mapbox-gl10
testing10
css10
typescript10
postcss10
geojson10
front-end-development10
chai10
typescript-types10
browserify10
maps10
swift10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
anandthakker/doiuse
Nov 2014 - Mar 2017
:bomb: Lint CSS for browser support against caniuse database.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:160 commits, 19 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Anand's commits primarily focus on the front-end development of a CSS linting tool. They modified the source code, updating the build process and modifying CSS features. They also updated the data and features being checked, reflecting the user's work in refining the core functionality of the linter by incorporating new features. This included improvements to the detection of feature usages within CSS files.
lintercaniuselintbrowserbrowser-support
mapbox/mapbox-gl-js
Jun 2015 - Aug 2018
Interactive, thoroughly customizable maps in the browser, powered by vector tiles and WebGL
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 249 commits, 375 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Anand contributed to the front-end development of the mapbox-gl-js project, focusing on enhancing the GeoJSONSource component. The user's work included exposing geojson-vt options like buffer and tolerance, and adding a featuresIn bounding-box feature query. These changes involved modifying JavaScript source files, test files, and the user interface component to enable and test the new features.
vector-tilestilesmonorepobrowsermapbox
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