Hi, I'm Parth 👋

Software Engineer

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I have been developing web apps since 2019 when I was first introduced to Open Source Software through Hacktoberfest. My journey started with the freeCodeCamp project, where I went on to become a project moderator, interacting with a community of over 4,000 members. Since then, I have worked on all kinds of stuff from data dashboards and program websites to full web apps for companies (...more below).

Some of the technologies I have worked with includes React, Express, and TypeScript. Besides those, I have worked with Python, Node, and mySQL on the backend. I'm learning Prisma lately and I'm excited to see where it takes me.

In my free time, I like to contribute to open-source projects, write browser extensions to make life easier, and learn new technologies. When I'm not around a computer, I'm either DJing for a radio show 📻, working on my pilot's license ✈️, or out and about ⛰️.

Experience

Software Engineering Intern

Authentic Insurance

Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

Added tracking features aiming at user retention for specific clients.
Added self-servicing features, reducing customer service costs on 100% of our clients.
Worked with the business development team to reduce user friction on the website.

Open Source Dev + Maintainer

freeCodeCamp

Mar 2019 - May 2023

Contributed 13,000+ lines of code and moderated the GitHub repo, overseeing organic growth from 250k to 334k stars, interacting with 1,700+ contributions.
Co-led site-wide migration to TypeScript for the online platform with ~2.5M views a month.
Mentored a community of over 4,300 people, reviewing and adding contributions to the project, taking it to 27k forks.

Fullstack Web Developer

Bigelow Lab for Ocean Sciences

May 2023 - Dec 2023

Designed and implemented a web dashboard, boosting project collaboration amongst 30+ researchers and staff at 10+ institutions.
Leveraged Google Drive and DigitalOcean Droplets to implement file sharing, improving efficiency by 50%.
Developed a robust data UI, streamlining and standardizing data sharing amongst researchers from varied academic disciplines.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Colby College

Double Major in CompSci and Economics, Geology Minor

Sep 2021 - May 2025

Presidential Scholar, Dean's List, Colby Student Government, Colby Outing Club

Projects

Passgen Extension

I switched from Chrome to Brave recently, but I miss the password generator that Chrome has built-in. So, instead of using a third-party extension, I built my own.

URL Meta Scraper

There were no JS tools to scrape metadata from a URL, so I created an Express REST API to do just that. There are PHP and Python solutions, but I did not want to add that complexity.

Arduino Alarm Beacon

Over my internship at Authentic Insurance, I built a simple beacon alarm system using an Arduino microcontroller and a beacon 🚨 that goes off whenever a policy is sold.