Majd Taby
CEO at Displaced: Stories from the Syrian Diaspora
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMajd Taby is a product-focused CEO and engineer with 15 years of experience at the intersection of design and software, leading teams to ship award-winning consumer apps like Darkroom (Apple Design Award winner and Best of the App Store). Comfortable switching between code, architecture, and design reviews, he combines hands-on implementation skills—shipped features at Instagram and Facebook and contributed to the Ember.js front-end ecosystem—with strategic product leadership. A proven builder of prototypes and interactions, he has a track record of launching products, securing high-profile marketing placements, and bootstrapping a profitable business. He also pursues documentary storytelling and independent publishing, having produced a Kickstarter-funded, widely referenced book documenting the Syrian diaspora, reflecting a rare blend of technical rigor and human-centered storytelling.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Michigan
English
Github Skills (5)
javascript-framework10
javascript10
ember10
documentation9
html8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
emberjs/ember.js
Jun 2011 - Aug 2011
Ember.js - A JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:108 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Majd contributed to the Ember.js framework by implementing and documenting features related to render buffers. They added detailed documentation for the render buffer, outlining its functionalities and the usage of its various properties, such as element classes, attributes, and content. Further contributions involved refactoring code, such as removing prefixes from method names and modifying existing functionality within the SproutCore views, which indicates a focus on improving the codebase's organization and maintainability. Additionally, the user performed R&D on touch gestures.
web-applicationsjavascript-frameworkjavascriptemberjsember
emberjs-addons/sproutcore-ui
May 2011 - Aug 2011
(Ember Only) A library for building rich, complex user-interfaces on top of Ember
Contributions:73 commits in 2 months
ember-addonuser-interfacesemberjsemberon-top
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