Sepand Ansari is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building full‑stack and mobile systems for high‑profile products and research teams. He has shipped auction and e‑commerce features at Artsy (including iOS bidding workflows) and built experimentation and visualization platforms at Twitter, and now contributes to quantum computing efforts at AWS. As a partner at Purple Bulldozer he has delivered data processing and visualization systems for clients like The Wall Street Journal, Columbia University, and Cloudera Fast Forward Labs, blending product design with engineering. Comfortable across frontend, backend, and mobile stacks, he brings a hybrid maker/consultant mindset—pairing rapid prototyping and strong engineering discipline to complex data and product problems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Tehran
Master of Arts (incomplete) Media Studies, Master of Arts (incomplete) Media Studies at The New School
The Art World in Your Pocket or Your Trendy Tech Company's Tote, Artsy's mobile app.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:38 reviews, 73 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sepand primarily contributed to the development of the Artsy mobile app, specifically focusing on features related to the bidding process. The commits demonstrate the implementation of a confirm bid screen, the integration of GraphQL for fetching bid increments, and the creation of UI components. The user also addressed test-related issues, showcasing a focus on the mobile app development within the Artsy ecosystem.
Contributions:71 reviews, 132 commits, 96 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Sepand primarily contributed to the Artsy.net website, focusing on both frontend and backend aspects. Their work included removing duplicate code lines, fixing bugs related to auction artwork details, and replacing mobile components with desktop equivalents. They also implemented changes to JSON-LD metadata and made significant updates to the mobile show pages.
reactjavascriptartsyexpress-jsgraphql
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Sepand Ansari - Software Engineer at Purple Bulldozer LLC