Devin Balkind
Director, Product & Technology at GridMarket, LLC
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDevin Balkind is a product and technology leader with 11 years of experience building software, data pipelines, and analytical products, currently directing Product & Technology at GridMarket in New York. He blends hands-on full-stack engineering—evidenced by contributions to the widely used Sahana Eden humanitarian platform—with strategic product management for both customer-facing and internal systems. A longtime open source and civic-tech advocate, Devin leads the Sahana Software Foundation and serves on the Sarapis board to scale community-driven disaster response and FLOSS capacity. He brings a practical, mission-focused approach that spans disaster zones, emergency operations centers, and commercial energy analytics, and is known for simplifying complex workflows into lean, deployable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS in Communications Radio/TV/Film History with specialization in the Middle East and Africa, BS in Communications Radio/TV/Film History with specialization in the Middle East and Africa at Northwestern University
English
Github Skills (2)
python9
open-source4
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sahana/eden
Oct 2014 - Feb 2016
Sahana Eden is an Open Source Humanitarian Platform which can be used to provide solutions for Disaster Management, Development, and Environmental Management sectors.. Please sign CLA when submitting pull requests: http://bit.ly/SSF-eCLA
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Devin primarily worked on the application's menu system and UI elements, making modifications to reflect organizational needs and adding new features like a feed. They changed menu items, removed dropdown functionality, and adjusted labels to improve user navigation. Furthermore, the user updated and modified the registration component of the application by changing wording. The user's changes affected both front-end (HTML) and backend (Python/menu configuration) components, indicating a full-stack development focus.
http-requestspythonsectorsssfdisaster
devinbalkind/wpsynctest
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:269 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
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