Kasra Kyanzadeh
CEO at Lightpage
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKasra Kyanzadeh is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with 14 years of experience building developer-facing products and consumer apps from early-stage startups to scale. Currently CEO of Lightpage, he previously helped shape product and engineering at Airtable as an early employee and led product engineering at Watershed, blending hands-on architecture with team leadership. Kasra has a strong mobile and JavaScript pedigree—contributing to Mixpanel’s iOS SDK and improving the widely used airtable.js client for better browser/Node interoperability. He pairs entrepreneurial curiosity (earlier founders and a half-million-download iOS game) with pragmatic shipping: prototyping novel UX for Khan Academy and Optimizely and turning concepts into production systems. Based in New York, he brings a rare combination of product intuition, full-stack craftsmanship, and experience scaling both codebases and teams.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (29)
objective-c10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
jquery10
analytics10
sdk10
json9
push-notifications9
apidoc9
apple-push-notifications9
api9
nodejs9
browserify8
documentation8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Airtable/airtable.js
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Airtable javascript client
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 5 commits, 55 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kasra primarily focused on improving the Airtable JavaScript client's functionality and browser compatibility. They fixed JSHint warnings and addressed cross-domain request issues by integrating jQuery. Key contributions include refactoring the code to send request bodies as JSON, removing a potentially conflicting jQuery declaration, and separating the `run_action` functions for Node.js and browser builds. These changes enhanced the library's usability and flexibility in different environments.
airtablejavascriptjavascript-clientmhealth
mixpanel/mixpanel-iphone
Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
Official iOS (Objective-C) Tracking Library for Mixpanel Analytics
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:58 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kasra primarily contributed to the Mixpanel iOS SDK, focusing on enhancing the library's functionality and documentation. Their work included adding push notification registration features, fixing bugs related to property setting, and implementing device information gathering. They also updated documentation and tutorials to reflect the latest features and changes within the SDK.
cocoapodsanalyticsobjective-cmixpanel-iphonemixpanel-sdk
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