Dhruv Manek
Software Engineer at Tapestry @ X, The Moonshot Factory
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDhruv Manek is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building front-end and full-stack systems across major tech companies and startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has shipped production software at Google (two tenures), Meta, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, and early-stage ventures, demonstrating fluency in scaling complex web applications and product-driven engineering. A practical advocate for accessibility and cross-browser compatibility, he has contributed to high-profile open-source projects like the AMP framework and AngularJS, improving components such as amp-carousel and parser behavior with tests and visual regression checks. Dhruv combines deep hands-on coding with an eye for subtle UX and testing gaps, often addressing issues that prevent regressions in large codebases. He holds both BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from Virginia Tech and brings a steady track record of improving developer-facing frameworks as well as end-user experiences.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (9)
html10
css10
javascript10
unit-test10
angularjs10
react9
accessibility9
testing7
jquery5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:505 reviews, 175 commits, 225 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Dhruv primarily focused on improving the accessibility and visual appearance of the `amp-carousel` component. Their contributions involved updating focus styles for better color contrast, adding unit tests to verify the changes, and adding visual diff tests to identify visual regressions. Furthermore, the user enhanced the functionality of `amp-autocomplete` and fixed an issue in the `amp-next-page`.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
angular/angular.js
Sep 2011 - Dec 2011
AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dhruv contributed to the AngularJS framework by fixing parser bugs, enhancing widget styling for older Internet Explorer versions, and improving the ng:style directive. These changes addressed short-circuiting issues in logical operators within the parser, expanded the framework's compatibility, and optimized styling behavior. The user's work included adding tests to validate the fixes and improvements.
javascriptangularjsangularweb-apps
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