Gasim Gasimzada
Principal Software Engineer at Framer
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolGasim Gasimzada is a Principal Software Engineer based in Amsterdam with 12 years of experience building scalable full‑stack systems and game-engine level C++ projects. He has driven performance and developer experience improvements at companies like Miro and Zalando—implementing a WebGL renderer, a Web SDK for third‑party widgets, and a centralized React component library—while also shaping testing and CI/CD practices. A pragmatic refactorer and modularizer, he has contributed front-end architecture changes to the popular Excalidraw project, extracting math, UI, and element modules to simplify the codebase and add features like multi‑point arrows. Comfortable across the stack, he repeatedly combines low‑level engineering rigor with product-focused delivery, and his early work building ERP systems and volunteer management tools shows a longstanding knack for practical, impact‑driven solutions. He holds a Cum Laude Computer Science degree from Harvard Extension Studies and now focuses on enabling performant, extensible developer platforms and UIs.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies Cum Laude Computer Science, Bachelor of Liberal Arts in Extension Studies Cum Laude Computer Science at Harvard University
English, Russian, Azerbaijani, Turkish
Stackoverflow
7,775reputation
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105answers
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Github Skills (15)
typescript10
typescripts10
javascript10
react10
typescript-types10
canvas9
diagram8
drawing7
collaboration7
error-handling6
swift6
ios6
textview6
jquery6
android6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
excalidraw/excalidraw
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 43 PRs, 137 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Gasim primarily contributed to the refactoring and modularization of the Excalidraw codebase. They moved code related to math and random number generation into separate modules, improving code organization. The user also extracted element functions into modules, enhancing the project's structure, and extracted various UI components into their respective modules. Further, the user worked on the implementation of multi-point arrows, enhancing user interaction and functionality.
diagramsdrawnhand-drawnproductivitycollaboration
reactjs/az.react.dev
Feb 2019 - May 2021
🇦🇿 React documentation website in Azerbaijani
Contributions:4 reviews, 580 commits, 409 PRs in 2 years 4 months
documentation-websitereacttranslationreact-documentationazerbaijani-translation
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