Kawandeep Virdee
Senior Creative Technologist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKawandeep Virdee is a Senior Creative Technologist with 14 years of experience prototyping expressive, human-centered apps at the intersection of AI, design, and product. Currently building generative AI experiences in Google/YouTube labs, he has a track record of taking 0→1 projects from concept to launch—from founding whichlight and Hacking Models to creating Embedly’s popular Cards product and leading creator initiatives at Medium. His background spans data science and complex-systems research (NECSI) to product leadership, and he launched Medium’s topic classification ML team and tooling. A seasoned speaker and community builder, he regularly organizes meetups and has presented at MIT, Google Creative Lab, JSConf and others. He combines hands-on engineering with strategy and creative practice, often demonstrating ideas through interactive prototypes rather than slides. Based in San Francisco, Kawandeep blends research rigor with public-facing creative work, evidenced by a patent in HCI and coverage in major publications.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Mathematics, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Applied Mathematics at The George Washington University
Github Skills (32)
twitter10
javascript9
p5js9
embedly9
html9
web-audio-api8
canvas7
sketch6
wordpress-plugin6
wordpress6
react5
music5
synth5
nodejs5
api5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
whichlight/synthruary2022
Feb 2022 - Mar 2022
Contributions:115 commits, 98 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
whichlight/slit-scanstagram
Jan 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:19 commits in 7 months
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