Tarek Anandan
Partner Founder at Adapter, LLC | technoTarek
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTarek Anandan is a founder and full‑stack software engineer with 14+ years building bespoke web and database systems for mission-driven organizations, from think tanks and foundations to political and nonprofit clients. He leads technoTarek, a boutique agency that specializes in custom CMS, AMS/CRM, grant and event management, and political media-tracking solutions where off‑the‑shelf software falls short. Comfortable across Typescript/JavaScript frameworks, PHP/mySQL backends, API integrations and emerging AI agents, he pairs hands‑on development with information architecture and UX sensibilities. His work has powered projects covered by major outlets like NPR, The Washington Post and The Atlantic, and has earned industry awards for innovation in media and campaigns. A pragmatic problem solver with an MPP in domestic policy and an economics BA, he often translates complex public‑policy needs into scalable, production-ready technology. On open source he’s contributed front-end improvements such as performance and feature enhancements to the timeliner jQuery plugin, reflecting attention to polish as well as functionality.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MPP, Domestic Policy, Management, MPP, Domestic Policy, Management at University of MichiganBA, Economics, BA, Economics at Michigan State University
English, French
Github Skills (10)
plugin-development10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
html9
user-interface8
responsive-design8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
technotarek/timeliner
May 2012 - Dec 2018
jQuery plugin to make an interactive, historical timeline
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:94 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Tarek's primary contribution involved improvements to the jQuery-based timeline plugin, timeliner. This includes enhancing the jQuery selector logic to optimize performance, expanding the README to provide better documentation, and adding minified versions of the JavaScript and CSS files. They also implemented features such as proper instantiation and options, and resolved issues related to the event state, ultimately adding the functionality for the startOpen option to open one or multiple items by default.
timelinejqueryjavascripthistoricaljquery-plugin
technotarek/permit
Feb 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:36 commits, 2 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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