Kushal Dave
CTO at Euclid Power
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKushal Dave is a seasoned technology leader and CTO based in Portland, Oregon, with 15 years of experience building product-focused engineering organizations and shipping at-scale consumer features. He co-founded Scroll and led its technical vision through acquisition by Twitter, later directing engineering for Longform and Twitter Blue where he shipped major features like Ad-Free Articles and Notes. His background spans hands-on front-end work (notably contributions to the AMP project improving scroll-based access UX) to backend and DevOps efforts for performance and telemetry, showing a rare blend of product design, architecture, and operational rigor. At Foursquare and Chartbeat he helped operationalize systems and APIs used by partners at scale, and at Google he pioneered introducing richer JavaScript experiences into search and maps. Comfortable oscillating between coding and C-suite strategy, he’s known for building cross-functional teams, tight product-engineering alignment, and measurable metrics-driven improvements. He combines entrepreneurial grit from startup exits with deep technical chops in web performance, UI engineering, and observability.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Yale University
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Github Skills (25)
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css10
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front-end-development10
html10
performance-monitoring10
networking9
responsive-design9
http9
analytics8
devops8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ampproject/amphtml
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 14 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Kushal contributed significantly to the `amp-access-scroll` extension, enhancing its functionality and user experience within the AMP framework. Their work involved implementing UI elements, integrating with the Scroll service for authentication and analytics, and ensuring proper behavior in different contexts like stories. The commits demonstrate a focus on front-end development with JavaScript and HTML, creating components, and interacting with AMP's APIs. The user also addressed bugs and updated the CSS to align with the current UI.
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twitter-archive/commons
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
Twitter common libraries for python and the JVM (deprecated)
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Kushal primarily focused on implementing and refining a stats reporting mechanism for the `twitter-archive/commons` project. They added functionality to upload timing results, including run information and various performance metrics, to a specified URL. Subsequent commits refined the implementation, including adding error handling for network issues and addressing review comments related to the initial implementation. The work demonstrates an emphasis on monitoring and performance analysis within the project's build and execution processes.
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