Aniket Handa
Owner at OpenBnB
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAniket Handa is a product-focused engineer and founder with 12 years of experience designing and building next-generation user experiences across AR, VR, and web platforms. He co-founded and scaled Orca to 35+ destinations and $100k+ MRR, and now runs Altmatter, a design + engineering studio, while founding OpenBnB to help short-term rental managers drive direct bookings. Previously a senior staff engineer at Mojo Vision and a senior UX engineer at Microsoft, he helped define interactions for AR contact lenses and was a core contributor to Fluent UI/Office UI Fabric. His background blends HCI research (MS from University of Washington) with deep front-end engineering—refactoring legacy codebases to TypeScript and improving React component libraries used broadly at Microsoft. He holds multiple patents in 3D environment authoring and virtual space navigation, reflecting a sustained focus on spatial computing and interaction design. Based in Seattle, he combines entrepreneurial grit with hands-on implementation across product, design, and open-source UI work.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute Of Information TechnologyMaster’s Degree, Human Computer Interaction, Master’s Degree, Human Computer Interaction at University of Washington, Master of Human-Computer Interaction + Design
English, Hindi
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
component-development10
css10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
component-kit10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
html10
typescripts10
react10
handlebars9
react-components9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/fluentui
Jul 2016 - Dec 2019
Fluent UI web represents a collection of utilities, React components, and web components for building web applications.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:44 commits, 125 PRs, 90 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aniket primarily worked on enhancing the user interface of the Fluent UI web components within the `microsoft/fluentui` repository. Their contributions included implementing new features for components, updating styles, fixing bugs, and improving component interactions. They also added and refined examples demonstrating the use of various components. The user demonstrated a strong focus on React components and associated styling adjustments, including contributions to theming and theming-related elements.
web-componentsreact-component-libraryreact-componentsmicrosoftui-components
OfficeDev/office-ui-fabric-core
May 2016 - May 2016
The front-end CSS framework for building experiences for Office and Microsoft 365.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 14 PRs, 23 pushes in 15 days
Contributions summary:Aniket primarily contributed to the office-ui-fabric-core repository by replacing jQuery with TypeScript in several components. They refactored ListItem, Pivot, TextField, and Toggle components, demonstrating a focus on modernizing the codebase. Additionally, the user addressed specific issues within components such as Pivot, fixing Handlebars templates and addressing "is-selected" state issues. They also removed sibling CSS selectors and updated related JavaScript and HTML code for the ChoiceField component, indicating a focus on code maintainability and improvements.
cssexperiencesmicrosoft-365microsoftfor-office
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