Sherin Kurian
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Instacart
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSherin Kurian is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building full-stack systems at scale, currently leading backend and frontend efforts at Instacart after earlier engineering roles at Hulu. He blends hands-on feature delivery with platform-level improvements, demonstrated by contributions to the widely used owid/owid-grapher open-source visualization platform where he improved country data standardization, API endpoints, and admin UI for cleaner user workflows. Comfortable across the stack, Sherin has a track record of shipping pragmatic, data-focused solutions that simplify complex domain problems like geographic normalization. Educated in computer engineering in Mumbai and with additional study at USC, he pairs strong engineering fundamentals with practical product sensibility and a knack for incremental UX improvements that reduce friction for end users.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of Southern CaliforniaB.E, Computer Engineering, B.E, Computer Engineering at Fr. Conceicao Rodrigeous Institute of Technology, Mumbai University
Github Skills (17)
data-visualizations10
typescript10
data-visualisation10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
data-visualization10
typescripts10
react10
back-end-development9
apidoc9
api9
backend9
fuzzy-matching8
tsql7
databases7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
owid/owid-grapher
May 2018 - Jan 2020
A platform for creating interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 13 PRs, 29 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Sherin primarily focused on enhancing the platform's functionality by introducing features related to country data standardization. Their work involved modifying both frontend and backend code, specifically the admin interface and API endpoints, to support continent data and improve country name matching. They also contributed to UI improvements by fixing linting issues and streamlining user interactions within the country standardizer tool. This includes adding a new column to display the standardized country names in the CSV and enabling saving user selections.
graph-analysisreactmemgraphgraphsvisualizations
sherin/owid-grapher
May 2018 - Jan 2020
Interactive data visualizations done quickly
Contributions:38 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 8 months
reactvisual-analyticsgraphsvisualizationsdata-visualization
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