Thupten Nyima - Founder at Mediakite Corp.

Thupten Nyima

Founder at Mediakite Corp.

New York, New York, United States

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Thupten Nyima is a seasoned web developer and founder with over 11 years building media and cultural-heritage platforms from New York. He created VajraTV and Buddhistapps to deliver global, multi-platform Buddhist video and app experiences, and leads the Conserve Tibet Project to preserve at-risk Tibetan audio and video archives. As CTO at Mediakite he managed web, hardware and software infrastructure for production and original content workflows, pairing product-minded engineering with multimedia expertise. A lifelong learner trained in Ruby/Rails, TDD/BDD and multimedia tools, he also contributes to open source internationalization—having localized the widely used Moment.js library for Tibetan—demonstrating attention to detail and cross-cultural impact.

11 years of coding experience

3 years of employment as a software developer

Web Development, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design, Web Development, Web Page, Digital/Multimedia and Information Resources Design at Combit Web Technologies, India

Ruby & Ruby on Rails, Ruby & Ruby on Rails, TDD, BDD, Ruby & Ruby on Rails, Ruby & Ruby on Rails, TDD, BDD at Thoughtbot, Codeschool and others

3D Studio Max, Adobe After Effects, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects, 3D Studio Max, Adobe After Effects, Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics and Special Effects at Square Pixel India, 3D animations

Tibetan, English, Hindi

Github Skills (4)

internationalization10

localization10

javascript5

testing4

Programming languages (3)

JavaScriptHTMLRuby

Github contributions (5)

moment/moment

Jul 2014 - Jul 2014

Parse, validate, manipulate, and display dates in javascript.

Role in this project:

Localization / Internationalization Specialist

Contributions:7 commits in 1 day

Contributions summary:Thupten's primary contribution involves localizing the moment/moment repository for the Tibetan language. This included creating and refining a Tibetan language file to enable proper date and time formatting and parsing. The user corrected formatting assertions and whitespace, demonstrating a focus on detail and accuracy in the localized output. This work directly enhances the project's global usability by supporting date and time representation in the Tibetan language.

validationnpm-packagejavascriptnodejsdates

vajradog/myflix

May 2015 - Jun 2015

Contributions:48 PRs, 95 pushes, 36 branches in 1 month

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