Kushagra Gour
Expert Mentor at topmate.io
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolKushagra Gour is an Expert Mentor and indie product maker from Delhi with 14 years of front-end engineering experience, currently mentoring at Topmate and building Web Maker while co-running CSSBattle — the first code-golfing game for CSS developers. He has led frontend teams at Wingify and PushOwl, shaping frontend architecture for large web apps, improving developer experience, and scaling teams. A pragmatic open-source contributor, he focuses on UI polish, accessibility and tooling improvements—adding cursor APIs, a11y fixes and a prettier build step to superplaceholder.js and refining demos and UX in cta.js. He mixes product craft with playful learning: a former flash game studio founder who still runs code-golf events and builds hands-on tools that make frontend experimentation faster and more fun.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech computer science, B.Tech computer science at MSIT
Hindi
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Github Skills (20)
animations10
javascript10
ui-d10
animation10
css10
ui-design10
placeholder10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
html10
frontend-development10
github9
accessibility8
service-worker6
jekyll6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
chinchang/superplaceholder.js
Feb 2016 - Jan 2019
⚡Super charge your input placeholders
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 29 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Kushagra primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the project. Their contributions include adding a logo, refining the demo.html file for improved presentation and a11y changes, and introducing new features like cursor customization options. Additionally, they updated the project's build process to include a "prettier" step for code formatting and bumped the project to version 0.1.1 and 0.1.2, indicating an active role in the project's development cycle. Furthermore, the user added API methods for controlling the placeholder behavior.
helpervuechargeaccessibilityplaceholders
chinchang/cta.js
Mar 2015 - Jul 2016
Animate your 'action-to-effect' paths
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:33 commits, 8 PRs, 24 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kushagra primarily contributed to the front-end development of the cta.js library, focusing on improving the demo and documentation. Their commits involved fixing issues in the HTML and CSS, enhancing the demo styles, and refining the user interface elements. Additionally, the user implemented features such as enabling the disabling of scroll and adding a close function for the modal. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and visual presentation of the library.
reactanimationjavascripteasing-functionsanimate
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