Monte Thakkar
Founding Member at Rosebud
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolMonte Thakkar is a full-stack senior software engineer and founding member with 11 years of industry experience, currently building AI-driven product Rosebud in Los Angeles. He blends strong product sense with hands-on front-end expertise, having contributed UI components to the popular react-native-elements library and authored a widely used React Native ratings component. Monte has co-founded and scaled multiple startups—leading engineering at Curio where he built a real-time NFT indexer and launched an ecosystem including a sold-out NFT drop and a Discord bot—and has production mobile experience from roles at Expedia and Pillow. Comfortable across mobile, web, and backend systems, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product instincts to ship delightful user experiences. An understated strength: he repeatedly moves between founding roles and large-company execution, making him adept at both early-stage ambiguity and production-grade reliability.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.51, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.51 at San Francisco State UniversityAssociate's degree, Computer Science, 3.42, Associate's degree, Computer Science, 3.42 at Foothill CollegeiOS Development, iOS Development at CodePath
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Kutchi, Kannada
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Github Skills (15)
uid10
javascript10
ios10
react-native10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
android10
react10
ui-components10
mobile-development9
mobile9
expo9
user-interface8
interface-design8
scrollview6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Monte9/react-native-ratings
May 2017 - Mar 2021
Tap and Swipe Ratings component for React Native.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & UI Designer
Front-end Developer & UI DesignerContributions:5 reviews, 85 commits, 43 PRs in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Monte primarily contributed to the UI components of a React Native library focused on tap and swipe ratings. Their work involved renaming files, adding and modifying example code using React Native components, and integrating with the Expo environment. They also focused on implementing a working ratings component using the project's source code, adding features and functionality.
reactreact-nativeandroidswipeios
react-native-elements/react-native-elements-app
Jan 2017 - May 2020
Demo app for React Native Elements (w/ React Native Web)
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 21 PRs, 53 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Monte primarily contributed to the development of the React Native Elements demo app. They added new UI components such as Tiles and implemented UI elements for buttons, input fields and navigation. The commits indicate a focus on enhancing the user interface and improving the overall design and layout of the application, suggesting a front-end development role.
demo-appreactnative-elementsreact-nativeelements
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