Chinmay Kunkikar
Product Engineer at Airtribe
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolChinmay Kunkikar is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years’ experience building performant, user-focused web products from learner-facing features to admin CRMs. Based in Bengaluru, he blends strong front-end expertise in React, Next.js and TypeScript with full-stack contributions to MERN projects, focusing on product, pixels, and performance. At Airtribe he owned end-to-end career services and mentorship systems that scaled to thousands of learners and optimized Core Web Vitals across platforms tracking millions of sessions. His open-source work includes enhancing ListenBrainz’s Fresh Releases UI and practical improvements to a MERN travel blog—demonstrating attention to UI detail, testing, and API hygiene. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs measurable product outcomes with thoughtful front-end craftsmanship and mentorship.
11 years of coding experience
B.Sc, B.Sc at MAEER's Arts, Commerce and Science College (MIT Pune)M.Sc, M.Sc at University of Mumbai
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
metabrainz/listenbrainz-server
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Server for the ListenBrainz project, including the front-end (javascript/react) code that it serves and all of the data processing components that LB uses.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 178 commits, 16 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Chinmay primarily focused on front-end development tasks, with a strong emphasis on React and TypeScript. Their contributions included fixing UI bugs, such as the ListenCountCard rendering, and implementing new features like showing track durations in the BrainzPlayer and ListenCard components. The user also added a recent releases page, incorporating React components and styling improvements, while also adding tests and snapshots to ensure the UI components render as intended.
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krishnaacharyaa/wanderlust
Oct 2023 - Apr 2024
WanderLust is a MERN travel blog website 🚀 This project is aimed to help people to contribute in open source, upskill in react and master git.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 3 PRs, 49 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Chinmay contributed to the MERN stack travel blog website by refactoring API endpoints for better industry standards and removing deprecated Mongoose options. They improved the frontend by adding Prettier plugins for Tailwind CSS class sorting and implementing mobile responsiveness. Furthermore, the user made several UI improvements, including adding a light and dark theme, overhauling modal styling, and adjusting text sizes for better visual hierarchy.
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