Wesam Manassra
Member Of Technical Staff at Self-employed
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolWesam Manassra is a seasoned full-stack engineer with 12 years of experience building data analysis and visualization products, currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI in San Francisco. He combines deep front-end expertise in WebGL and geospatial visualization with back-end experience handling large datasets, evidenced by contributions to high-profile open-source projects like luma.gl, kepler.gl, and loaders.gl. As a founding engineer at startups (Unfolded, Pastel) and senior roles at Uber and Foursquare, he has repeatedly turned complex spatial and ML-driven requirements into polished, production-grade interfaces. Wesam’s work often focuses on making large-scale data accessible—fixing tricky parsing bugs, improving performance, and upgrading dependencies—while also improving documentation and examples to help other developers ship faster. Trained at MIT, he blends research-minded problem solving with pragmatic product delivery and freelances on visualization and analytics apps between roles.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at UWC-USA
English, Arabic
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Github Skills (17)
data-visualizations10
webgl10
json10
javascript10
website-development10
data-visualisation10
apache-arrow10
front-end-development10
loader10
csv10
data-visualization10
react10
documentation10
css9
nodejs9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
visgl/loaders.gl
Jun 2020 - Jun 2021
Loaders for big data visualization. Website:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 25 commits, 28 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Wesam primarily contributed to improving the `loaders.gl` library, which involves data loading and processing for large datasets. Their work includes adding support for new input types, fixing bugs related to JSON and CSV parsing, and enhancing the handling of duplicate column names in CSV files. The user also upgraded the Apache Arrow dependency. This includes the development of the code for the core and json and csv modules.
csvloadersbasisdracobig-data-visualization
keplergl/kepler.gl
May 2018 - Feb 2021
Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 16 commits, 16 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Wesam primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Kepler.gl website. Their work involved implementing the marketing page, including the integration of the Uber header. They updated UI elements such as logos and icons and addressed a video autoplay issue in Chrome. Further contributions include updating the walkthrough section with video content, and updating descriptions for example maps.
geospatialkeplerdata-setsmapboxscale
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