Vaibhav Bhawsar
Design And Technology Director at Independent
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVaibhav Bhawsar is a design-and-technology director with 11 years of experience crafting interactive systems that blend data visualization, collaborative interfaces, and narrative-driven experiences for enterprises, NGOs, and research institutions. He co-founded Timescape, a map-based storytelling platform used by MIT, UNESCO, and WWF to build crowdsourced narrative maps for outreach and impact, and has led visualization work at Ushahidi and Yahoo’s Brickhouse. Equally comfortable teaching and shipping products, he has mentored students at Srishti and taught courses on data storytelling and locative media while partnering with organizations like the Open Technology Fund to amplify impact through data. His hands-on front-end contributions to open-source projects (notably improving UX and activity timelines in the Ushahidi platform client) reflect a practical focus on smoothing user experience in data-rich tools. Trained at NYU ITP and Srishti, he combines an artist’s sensibility with engineering rigor to design interfaces that surface new ways of knowing and collaborating across communities.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Master's Degree, Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York UniversityProfessional Diploma in Design, Communication & Graphic Design, Professional Diploma in Design, Communication & Graphic Design at Srishti School of Art, Design and Technology
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (9)
html10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
angularjs10
d3js9
css9
fest5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ushahidi/platform-client
Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
Ushahidi Platform Client, version 3+
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vaibhav primarily focused on improving the user interface and front-end functionality of the Ushahidi Platform Client. Their contributions include refactoring code to use `ngBind` for header text to avoid flickering, initializing the activity page with its basic structure and components. Further work involved implementing dynamic time intervals and data visualization elements within the activity page, as well as integrating an activity timeline widget. This demonstrates a clear focus on enhancing the user experience.
web-appweb-applicationushahidi
vbhv/vbhv.github.io
Sep 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 5 months
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