Kunal Botla
Elected Town Meeting Member, Precinct Four at The Tufts Daily
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolKunal Botla is an interdisciplinary designer and civic leader based in Boston with nine years of experience bridging architecture, urban policy, and community engagement. Elected as a Town Meeting Member and chairing Lexington’s Transportation Advisory Committee, he has driven tangible transit improvements—from more frequent MBTA service to expanded, affordable local minibus operations. He combines studio practice and teaching at Tufts and SMFA with hands-on design work through his contract practice, translating academic rigor into practical, code-aware design and presentation deliverables. Active in civic and student governance, he shapes policy and educational programming as an Experimental College board member and Tufts TA while running local campaigns and organizing community tech events like MAHacks. A Hack Club alum and former operations contributor, he pairs creative technical fluency with a knack for organizing cross-disciplinary teams to deliver public-facing projects. Notably, his blend of municipal policymaking and studio practice gives him rare expertise in making design decisions that are both community-centered and operationally feasible.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Interdisciplinary Studio Art, Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Interdisciplinary Studio Art at School of the Museum of Fine ArtsBachelor of Arts - BA, Architectural Studies, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Architectural Studies at Tufts UniversityVisiting Student, Hindi/Urdu, Visiting Student, Hindi/Urdu at Boston UniversityHigh School Diploma, Design & Architecture, High School Diploma, Design & Architecture at NuVu High SchoolVisiting Student in Berlin, Berlin: Capital of Modernity, Visiting Student in Berlin, Berlin: Capital of Modernity at New York UniversityHigh School, High School at Lexington High SchoolElementary & Middle School (Grades 3 to 8), STEAM, Elementary & Middle School (Grades 3 to 8), STEAM at Acera: The Massachusetts School of Science, Creativity and LeadershipDesign Discovery, Architecture, Design Discovery, Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (54)
visualization10
cname10
theme-ui10
geospatial10
kepler10
dns10
kepler-gl10
large-scale9
sum9
scale9
gis9
geospatial-analysis9
subdomain9
data-visualization9
bit8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
projectboom/projectboom.org
May 2020 - Nov 2020
This is the GitHub repository of the official Project Boom website.
Contributions:89 PRs, 177 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
cssjavascript
projectboom/testing-website
May 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:71 pushes in 3 months
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