Siva Venkata
Senior Frontend Engineer at Ushur
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiva Venkata is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in San Francisco with 7 years focused on modern web applications and a longer tenure building rich client experiences at companies like Microsoft and Uber. He blends front-end leadership and full-stack pragmatism, shipping production React/Typescript apps and leading teams at Findem and Ushur. Notably, he has contributed advanced 3D editing features to Uber’s nebula.gl—adding polygon/ellipse drawing and geometric transform modes—demonstrating both UI craft and spatial-data insight. His background in structural engineering (IIT Madras) informs a methodical approach to architecture and UX for complex interactive systems. Comfortable across frontend stacks, he’s known for translating geometric and spatial problems into intuitive, performant interfaces.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B-Tech, Civil Engineering, B-Tech, Civil Engineering at Bapatla Engineering CollegeIndian Institute of Technology Madras
Github Skills (11)
data-visualizations10
webgl10
javascript10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
react10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
git9
testing8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
uber/nebula.gl
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
A suite of 3D-enabled data editing overlays, suitable for deck.gl
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 19 PRs, 36 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Siva significantly contributed to the `nebula.gl` repository by implementing new features for editing 3D data overlays, specifically focusing on drawing and manipulating geometric shapes like ellipses and polygons. They added modes to draw and manipulate polygons with right angles, and translate, rotate, and scale features. The user also integrated these features into the example application, demonstrating a solid understanding of both the library's internals and its user interface.
data-editingdeckwebgloverlaysdeck-gl
sivako/nebula.gl
Aug 2018 - Dec 2018
A suite of 3D-enabled data editing overlays, suitable for deck.gl
Contributions:37 pushes, 23 branches in 3 months
data-editingdeckoverlaysdeck-glsuitable
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