Kourosh Mirzaei
Lead Software Engineer at SAM Labs
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolKourosh Mirzaei is a Lead Software Engineer based in Austin with a decade of full-stack experience building education and web platforms. He progressed through multiple roles at SAM Labs—creating a visual coding platform for K-8 students, scaling SAM Studio to serve 50,000+ students across 500+ schools, and now leading engineering efforts. Comfortable across React, JavaScript, MERN stack and platform-level features, he excels at turning product needs into polished, performant user experiences. A former live sound engineer and co-founder/musician in an internationally recognized band, he brings a creative, systems-thinking approach to engineering and team problem-solving. Known as a go-to technical troubleshooter, he pairs hands-on coding with a passion for mentoring and sharing new skills. His background in music production and sound engineering often informs his unique attention to latency, UX and multimedia challenges in web apps.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Music Engineering, Music production., Bachelor of Science, Music Engineering, Music production. at Tehran Institute of TechnologyTech-degree, Front End Developer, Tech-degree, Front End Developer at Treehouse
English, Persian
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Github Skills (26)
minecraft10
adafruit10
makecode10
blockly9
experiment9
typescript8
javascript8
editor7
react6
slick6
microsoft6
react-carousel4
backend3
image-gallery3
expressjs3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
K00ry/web_api_v1
Aug 2016 - Jun 2018
10th project of tree house Tech-degree.
Contributions:14 PRs, 39 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year 10 months
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K00ry/photo_gallery_v1
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:20 commits, 8 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 month
treehouseproject-4image-gallery-projectgalleryimage-gallery
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