Marvin Sum
Software Engineer, Front End at Palantir Technologies
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMarvin Sum is a front-end software engineer based in New York with eight years of experience building data-rich React and TypeScript applications at Palantir. He pairs a strong product-design background—years as a product and UI designer—with hands-on engineering to create polished, usable interfaces that help subject-matter experts visualize and analyze complex data. At Palantir he contributes to widely used open-source UI work like Palantir’s Blueprint, adding pragmatic component features (e.g., TagInput disabled state, breadcrumb icons) and improving docs and tests. His career began in engineering and product roles across startups and high-traffic platforms, giving him a rare mix of design sensibility and infrastructure awareness. Marvin holds an engineering degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering and is pursuing advanced CS study at Georgia Tech, reflecting a continuous commitment to technical depth. Colleagues rely on him to translate ambiguous product needs into robust, testable UI components that scale in enterprise environments.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons), Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE (Hons), Electrical & Electronic Engineering at University of CanterburyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
blueprint10
component-kit10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
enzyme9
jestjs9
jes9
testing9
enzyme-testing9
documentation8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
palantir/blueprint
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
A React-based UI toolkit for the web
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 9 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Marvin focused on implementing and enhancing UI components within the Blueprint React UI toolkit. Their contributions included adding a disabled state to the `TagInput` component, including updates to documentation and test cases. They also addressed button group fill prop functionality in button popovers. Further work involved rendering icon elements for breadcrumbs.
reactblueprintocto-correct-managedsassjavascript
marvinsum/react-ts-scss-starter
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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