Towhid Kashem is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building production-grade front-end applications and evolving into a senior engineering role at Bitly. He brings deep React, TypeScript, and front-end architecture experience from prior positions at CafeMedia and Electus, and has a track record of shipping polished UIs that integrate media features—evidenced by his Snapchat-clone project that implements camera streaming, Redux state management, and end-to-end testing. At Bitly he has progressed from Software Engineer III to Senior Software Engineer, demonstrating both technical growth and sustained impact on product-facing systems. His background in network and system administration gives him a practical infrastructure-minded perspective that complements his UI expertise. Known for thorough testing and tooling habits (Cypress, Jest, ESLint, Prettier), he blends hands-on coding with attention to quality and maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator, Associate's degree, Network and System Administration/Administrator at Laguardia Community College
👻 A Snapchat clone built with React and Redux. Written in Typescript. Styled with SASS. Tested with Cypress, Jest and Enzyme. Linted with Eslint and formatted with Prettier!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:249 commits, 5 PRs, 51 pushes in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Towhid primarily focused on building the front-end components of the Snapchat clone application. They implemented the basic structure using React, Redux, and TypeScript, and styled the components with SASS. The user also added camera functionality, including displaying the camera stream, and worked on the UI components for the footer and menu with the use of icons and buttons.
A client for the Reddit API, building this to practice React, Redux, Material UI and PWA enhancements.
Contributions:4 PRs, 72 pushes, 5 branches in 6 months
apireactreddit-apireact-reduxpwa
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