About Me

I’m Kushal Pandya, I’m currently living in Toronto, Canada. I’ve been developing for web (and writing JavaScript) for over 12 years. I’m currently working remotely at GitLab as Fullstack Engineering Manager where I’m also a maintainer of GitLab source. Prior to GitLab, I worked at Saba (now called Cornerstone) for close to 4 years designing enterprise webapps on Learning (LMS), Talent and Certification domains. Here’s my CV in case you want to know more about my professional background.

When I’m not writing code, I’m mostly playing games on PS5 or Nintendo Switch , or exploring Linux distros (currently using Manjaro with KDE), playing around with custom ROMs for Android, watching gadgets on YouTube, (rarely) playing acoustic guitar, watching movies, and some times going for a short road trip to a hill nearby. I also take a lot of pictures of places I visit, which I periodically post of Flickr & Instagram.

My Workspace

My workspace involves 2 traditional computers (2021 MacBook Pro 16” & a Desktop running Manjaro & Windows 11), as well as an iPad Pro 11” (2024). I use mostly MacBook for my day job but I personally prefer using Linux (be it Manjaro or any other distro). My text editor of choice is VS Code although I used (and loved) Sublime Text back in the day until they slowed down its development and Atom & VS Code came up to take the lead.

Projects I’m Currently Working On

I have spent most part of September and October 2019 working on rewrite of this website. I regularly tinker on bunch of side projects in Python, C#, or just bash scripts, I’ve worked on some of the propreitary side projects as well (details available in Projects section of this site).

Technologies I’ve Worked On

In my frontend career, I’ve worked on pretty much every popular frontend technology, all the way from ExtJS to Knockout, Angular, React, Ember, and Vue. My favorite by far is Vue (for obvious reasons) so apart from working on Vue (and Vuex as well as GraphQL at times) in my day job, I also use Vue a lot on my personal projects. As for site, I’m not using Vue, instead I relied on Jekyll for building it and Netlify for hosting it.

Education

I did my post-graduation in Information Technology from DA-IICT where I was part of 2011 batch, and I did my graduation, again in Information Technology, from Saurashtra University, 2008 batch.

Contact Me

I’m open to collaboration on projects if you have one and would love to learn more about it! Fastest way to get in touch with me to would be to reach out to me on Twitter/X, while I’m also available on other social platforms (as linked on the left in navigation).