Jason Kurian
Senior Web Developer at 1Password
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolJason Kurian is a Senior Web Developer with 12 years of experience building reliable, data-driven web platforms and design systems for companies like Shopify and 1Password. He combines full-stack expertise—React, GraphQL, Rails, and JAMstack architectures—with a strong focus on developer experience, automated testing, and maintainable front-end tooling. At Paddle HR he led a GraphQL rollout to expose a 440M+ point dataset and at Nulogy helped invent storybook-driven development for visual components, demonstrating a practical commitment to scalable UX engineering. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved syntax highlighting for Prism.js (notably GraphQL and Liquid languages) and strengthened test and type safety in Redux tooling. Based in Kitchener, Ontario, Jason pairs systems-design training from the University of Waterloo with a track record of mentoring and process improvements that speed team delivery.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School SciTech Specialist High Skills Major, High School SciTech Specialist High Skills Major at Port Credit Secondary SchoolShad Valley UNBHonours Bachelor of Knowledge Integration (BKI) inc. Knowledge Integration, Honours Bachelor of Knowledge Integration (BKI) inc. Knowledge Integration at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
jes10
eslint10
wpgraphql10
jestjs10
wordpress-graphql10
jtest10
graphql10
syntax-highlighting10
testing9
npm9
babel69
babel-core9
front-end-development9
sql9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
redux-utilities/flux-standard-action
Oct 2016 - Aug 2019
A human-friendly standard for Flux action objects.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 43 commits, 74 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the `redux-utilities/flux-standard-action` repository. They refactored the codebase, enforcing type safety, updating dependencies, and enhancing test coverage with Jest. The user also implemented improvements to the test suite, including the use of dirty-chai and improved eslint rules and refactored the test structure.
human-friendlyflux
PrismJS/prism
Jun 2021 - Jul 2021
Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:74 reviews, 6 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the Prism.js repository by enhancing the syntax highlighting of code. Their work focused on refining the parsing and tokenization of various languages, specifically GraphQL and Liquid, to provide more detailed and accurate highlighting. They fixed existing token definitions, added new keywords, and included objects from a reference to improve code display within the Prism.js framework. These modifications directly contribute to improving the usability of the syntax highlighter for developers working with these languages.
syntax-highlighting
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