Najee Amaranth
Technical Consultant at Hack the Hood
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNajee Amaranth is a Technical Consultant and full-stack JavaScript engineer based in Oakland with nine years of hands-on experience building web apps, designing data workflows, and advising on mental health software for Alameda County. He combines tech practice with community-centered impact—teaching software engineering at Hack the Hood, founding The Oakland Mind artist collective, and using music and events to expand access to tech for underrepresented youth. Comfortable across React, Node, SQL/NoSQL, APIs and deployment tooling, Najee bridges product design, technical research, and operations to turn real-world community needs into practical software solutions. An educator and organizer at heart, he brings empathy and entrepreneurial creativity to technical projects, often translating cultural work into digital experiences that scale.
9 years of coding experience
Computer Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering at Learner's Guild
Github Skills (39)
tournament10
javascript10
expressjs10
react10
rendering9
multiplayer9
user-interface9
2d-game9
typescript9
multiplayer-game9
declarative9
server9
chess9
spritesheet9
nodejs9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thamaranth/core-data-structures
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 6 pushes, 10 branches in 6 days
data-structuresimplementations
thamaranth/prrr
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:4 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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