Paras Sanghavi
Senior Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolParas Sanghavi is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack applications but a current focus on front-end JavaScript, WebGL, and shader-driven performance. He designs front-end architecture and solves rendering and performance challenges—work exemplified by TypeScript refactors in the popular pmndrs/three-stdlib repository and building the 3D visualization panels for Cruise’s Webviz used by 1000+ AV engineers. He’s shipped production Rust/WebAssembly integrations and zero-copy browser threading in an R&D context, and has led teams at Remix delivering complex, interactive TypeScript/React apps for transit planning across hundreds of cities. Comfortable spanning systems from firmware and cryptographic hardware testing to high-level UX, he pairs deep technical craft with a focus on collaborative team culture and clear developer documentation.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
English, Gujarati
Github Skills (9)
threejs10
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
3d10
abstraction9
javascript8
refactoring8
post-processing7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pmndrs/three-stdlib
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
📚 Stand-alone library of threejs examples designed to run without transpilation in node & browser
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Paras primarily focused on refactoring and converting existing code within the `three-stdlib` repository to TypeScript. They updated various files including `OrbitControls.ts`, `EffectComposer.ts`, `Pass.ts`, `ShaderPass.ts`, `MaskPass.ts`, `RenderPass.ts`, `AfterimagePass.ts`, `LineSegmentsGeometry.ts`, and `LineGeometry.ts` and made improvements to the `TransformControls` file as well. This included implementing class definitions, improving type safety, and modernizing the codebase by using `const` and `let` instead of `var`. Furthermore, the user moved methods from instance to prototype methods.
stand-alonebrowserstandwebgltranspilation
disambiguator/workstation_setup
Nov 2018 - Mar 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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