Kumail Hunaid
Product Designer at PixelsOnGrids
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKumail Hunaid is a design-minded engineer and founder with 12 years of experience helping early-stage tech founders ship their first MVPs and scale product-led businesses from Vancouver. He blends classical design sensibilities—from typesetting and Bauhaus thinking—to pragmatic engineering, having led cross-functional teams at McKinsey and built consumer-scale features at Dubizzle and Broadly. As founder of Borderline.biz and kumailht.com he pairs hands-on front-end and backend development with product strategy to move ideas rapidly into usable experiences. His open-source contributions (e.g., front-end UX improvements to the gridforms project) show a focus on practical UI polish and extensibility rather than flashy frameworks. Comfortable working across Javascript, Python, Django and modern deployment practices, he favors heuristic-driven design, extreme documentation, and automated pipelines to keep remote teams productive. Notably, his practice grew from print-design fundamentals into a pragmatic approach where the visible details serve real user outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
I'm self taught. I used to read blogs 4x hours every day, watch MIT Open Courseware, attend conferences, and learn by doing. It was a gamble, but it worked. I got to work with the best people at Dubizzle, McKinsey, Broadly and more. I've always enjoyed what I do. I followed only what I had a curiousity for, and it led me all this way., I'm self taught. I used to read blogs 4x hours every day, watch MIT Open Courseware, attend conferences, and learn by doing. It was a gamble, but it worked. I got to work with the best people at Dubizzle, McKinsey, Broadly and more. I've always enjoyed what I do. I followed only what I had a curiousity for, and it led me all this way. at Self Taught
Stackoverflow
317reputation
36kreached
1answer
10questions
Github Skills (12)
html10
css10
javascript10
jquery9
user-interface9
responsive-design9
css-selectors6
nodejs6
php6
regex6
bower6
security6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
furiouscollective/gridforms
Aug 2013 - Aug 2017
Data entry can be beautiful
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 40 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kumail primarily focused on enhancing the front-end user experience and implementing UI improvements for the `gridforms` project. They added features like Google Analytics tracking and social media buttons to the landing page. Their work also involved modifying the `gridforms.js` file to improve field focus interactions and adding example forms to demonstrate the functionality of the grid form framework. Further, they integrated external libraries to extend the capabilities of the framework.
grid-systemcss-gridgrid-layoutgridsdynamic-forms
kumailht/responsive-elements
Sep 2013 - Feb 2022
Responsive elements makes it possible for any element to adapt and respond to the area they occupy. It's a tiny javascript library that you can drop into your projects today.
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 8 years 6 months
javascript
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.