Avan Sardar
Founder Product Builder (Abuela's, MEHKO.ai, MEHKO.org, Back Channel, Reel Dating)
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAvan Sardar is a founder and full-stack product builder with a decade of experience shipping mission-driven apps and platforms from Austin, Texas. A former U.S. military Pashto linguist turned engineer, he blends discipline and cross-cultural problem-solving with hands-on expertise in React, Node.js, Java, and Ruby. He has contributed to high-scale systems (Lightstorm’s asset platform, BuySellAds’ Optimize) and launched consumer products like Cooked Nearby and Back Channel, both live on the App Store. Beyond engineering, Avan has mentored hundreds of learners, led immersive bootcamps to strong graduation and placement outcomes, and runs compliance-forward tools for home-chef microenterprise operations. He’s as comfortable designing governance models and payment flows as he is tuning Elasticsearch queries or building Flutter/Laravel backends. Driven by community impact, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with a knack for storytelling—on stage, in code, and in product.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyB.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at The University of New Mexico
English, German, Pashto
Stackoverflow
13reputation
895reached
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Github Skills (26)
frontend8
react8
android8
expo8
ios8
javascript8
react-native8
microfrontend7
typescript7
weex7
react-navigation6
ruby-on-rails6
stripe-payments6
json6
framework76
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mujibsardar/wdi_project_3
May 2017 - Apr 2021
Contributions:18 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 11 months
mujibsardar/fcb_react_express_heroku_example
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 5 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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