Kana Abe
Senior Fullstack Engineer at Spotify
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKana Abe is a Senior Fullstack Engineer with 12 years of experience building user-centric web applications, currently contributing at Spotify after senior engineering and tech lead roles at Glossier and Artsy. She blends front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by contributions to Artsy’s flagship artsy/force repository—with product-minded backend work to deliver polished, production-ready features. Her background spans engineering management, hands-on UI development, and customer-facing support, giving her a rare combination of technical leadership and empathy for end users. Kana’s early research on computer vision and art history demonstrates a long-standing interest in applying technical rigor to creative domains, and she brings that interdisciplinary perspective to modern product teams. Based in New York, she’s known for shipping reliable UI components and driving cross-functional collaboration at scale.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Flatiron SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Visual Art, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Computer Science, Visual Art at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-New BrunswickUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
html8
css7
j7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
artsy/force
Feb 2015 - Jul 2018
The Artsy.net website
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1814 commits, 708 PRs, 367 pushes in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Kana primarily worked on implementing features and creating user interface components within the application. Their contributions included building forms for the gallery insights, adding and updating newsletter subscriptions, including new UI elements for handling signups, and integrating these components within the existing front-end infrastructure. Their work shows a focus on maintaining a robust front-end with updated user interfaces.
reactjavascriptartsyexpress-jsgraphql
kanaabe/kanaabe.com
Jan 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
javascriptreact
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