Wassim Gharbi
Senior Software Engineer at Tesla
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWassim Gharbi is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 10 years of experience building high-performance front-end tooling and rich visualizations for complex systems, from Level 5 autonomous-vehicle platforms to Tesla Energy’s monitoring and observability products. He combines deep UI expertise—demonstrated by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like AMP (improving amp-youtube autoplay and playlist looping) and Google Web Stories—with a track record of leading cross-functional teams to ship production-grade developer and customer-facing tools. Comfortable across the stack, he has designed UX and backend systems for startups and large engineering organizations, and has repeatedly improved accessibility, responsiveness, and developer ergonomics. Notably, he transitioned from building media and design-focused experiences at Google and Area120 to owning visualization and validation tooling for autonomous systems and energy infrastructure, showing a rare blend of product sensibility and domain-driven engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Mathematics, High School Mathematics at Lycée Pilote Bourguiba TunisBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Lafayette College
French, English, Arabic, German
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
css10
uid10
front-end-development10
amp-stories10
react10
testing9
ui-design9
wordpress-plugin9
svg9
html9
responsive-design8
accessibility8
webpack7
styled-components7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
react-designer/react-designer
May 2019 - Jun 2019
It's not art
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 17 commits, 7 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Wassim primarily contributed to the front-end development of the React-based designer tool. Their commits focused on upgrading dependencies, fixing text rotation issues, implementing responsive previews, and improving the UI. Key changes involved modifying component styling, color pickers, and the overall structure of the design interface, demonstrating expertise in React component development and styling.
action-strategiesreactartsvgvector
ampproject/amphtml
May 2017 - Aug 2020
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 97 commits, 196 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Wassim implemented and refined the autoplay functionality for the `amp-youtube` component. This involved modifying the JavaScript code to pause autoplay animations when videos end and dispatch custom events for pause and play states. They also contributed to testing the component's behavior by adding tests for the autoplay functionality and ensuring that the `amp-youtube` component correctly handles different playback states such as playing and pausing. Furthermore, they added support for looping playlists.
web-componentscomponent-frameworkframeworkwebcomponentsweb-component
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