Kirtan Sakariya
Software Engineer at Vanguard
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKirtan Sakariya is a Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building full-stack web applications, currently working at Vanguard while completing a Computer Science degree at the University of Pittsburgh. He brings front-end expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Angular alongside backend experience with Java, SpringBoot, Node.js and graph databases like Neo4j. Kirtan has practical production experience stabilizing enterprise test suites and integrating backend endpoints with Angular frontends, plus internships that involved AWS, Twilio, and serverless patterns. He’s an active open-source contributor who improved usability and test coverage for the cross-platform asciimatics text-UI library by enhancing its FileBrowser widget. Comfortable moving between UI polish and backend robustness, he has a track record of resolving bugs, adding features, and shipping reliable integrations in both academic and corporate settings.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Junior, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Junior at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (10)
curses10
tui10
terminal-emulator10
regex10
terminal-application10
python10
testing9
unit-test9
unit-testing9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
peterbrittain/asciimatics
Nov 2018 - Nov 2018
A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus higher level APIs and widgets to create text UIs and ASCII art animations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 15 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kirtan primarily contributed to the `asciimatics` project by enhancing the `FileBrowser` widget. Their work involved implementing file filtering using regular expressions, adding comments for function arguments, and renaming parameters for clarity. They also added tests for the file filtering functionality, demonstrating a focus on improving the widget's usability and robustness. These contributions align with the project's goal of creating a cross-platform text UI library.
pythontuiasciiascii-artterminal
kirtansakariya/BobBot
May 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:42 PRs, 248 pushes, 28 branches in 3 years 5 months
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