Banks Nussman is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in TypeScript, React, and React Native, currently contributing to Akamai/Linode's open-source Cloud Manager front end trusted by hundreds of thousands of users. He combines strong front-end craftsmanship with a history of shipping production features and UX improvements in large SPA codebases, and maintains an active GitHub presence where his Linode contributions are visible. Based in Charlotte, NC, Banks pairs day-job engineering with indie-product building—authoring the ridebeep.app project—to explore real-world mobile UX and instrumentation. A high-achieving computer science graduate (3.95 GPA) who started at Linode as an intern, he brings practical open-source collaboration experience and a bias for shipping polished interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, GPA 3.95, Computer Science, GPA 3.95 at Appalachian State University
The Akamai Cloud Manager is an open-source, single-page application serving as the official UI for interacting with the Linode API. It is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers to manage their Linode services.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:790 reviews, 231 commits, 424 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Banks primarily contributed to the user interface of the Linode Cloud Manager, with commits focused on modifying and improving various frontend components. The contributions involved updating labels, modifying layouts, and adding links to improve user experience. They worked with React, TypeScript, and related libraries to implement these changes, demonstrating expertise in front-end development within this project.
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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