Kirah Sapong
Senior Product Engineer at Together AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirah Sapong is a Senior Product Engineer based in San Francisco who blends frontend craftsmanship with AI-native product work, currently building end-to-end experiences at Together AI. With four years in software and a background that started in communications, she has moved from consulting across finance, genomics, and retail to co-founding and exiting a fashion tech startup before contributing to fintech and decentralized identity efforts at RBC and Block. She’s shipped user-facing improvements in high-profile open-source projects like Automattic’s wp-calypso, focusing on TypeScript refactors and accessibility, and has designed SDKs for decentralized web protocols. Comfortable at the intersection of product, design and engineering, Kirah combines startup grit with experience delivering award-winning onboarding and scalable front-end systems.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Creative Communications Diploma, Journalism, Creative Communications Diploma, Journalism at Red River College PolytechnicBachelor of Science, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering at Western Governors UniversityMaster of Science in Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science in Engineering, Artificial Intelligence at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
scs10
front-end-development10
react10
sc10
typescript-types10
s69
accessibility9
nodejs7
wordpress6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kirah primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the `wp-calypso` repository, as indicated by their work on the plugin icon component, launchpad UI, and domain management features. They contributed to component refactoring using TypeScript and addressed accessibility concerns, including focus styles and tabbing behavior. Their work involved React, JavaScript, and styling with SCSS, showing a focus on improving the user experience and code quality.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
kirahsapong/kirahkirah
Mar 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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