Vir
Thakor
I love buildings things that people use, quality products and having an impact. I thrive working with a team, learning how to tackle interesting problems, and improving my craft.
Experience
Full stack development. Have worked on a variety of projects across the buyer & seller sides. Notably, worked on the free shipping rollout & adoption, reducing estimated delivery date times & improving accuracy, Currently focused on improving inventory architecture & performance.
Built web applications and data-driven tools for federal and commercial clients. Designed and shipped full-stack features across multiple technology stacks. Worked on Medicaid platform for reporting and analysis of internal programs. Developer for Pixt fashion, an app using clothing image matching to enabled consumer price comparison of similar products.
Created Proof of Concept project analyzing the Key Management System and feasibility of implementing key rotations within DB manager through centrally managed implementation. Researched options for encryption key lifecycle: generation, exchange, storage, use, shredding, and replacement. Created internal Web App to manage uploaded testing information using LAMP stack
Collaborated with a team to develop a Web Application that visualized the flow of commodities by volume via sea routes on an interactive global map. Wrote procedures for user to generate customizable queries of trade routes based on commodity, source and destination. Then, developed the corresponding route visualizations for ratios of goods imported and exported. Implemented algorithm to create interactive and animated navigation between cities, ports, and choke points of goods.
Projects & Side Work
Interactive node graph for creating and visualizing relationships between entities. Drag, link, and explore emergent structure.
Group expense tracker that calculates exactly who owes what to whom. Born from a trip where no one agreed on the math. Didn't know Splitwise existed
Dynamic word cloud generated from a block of free-form text. Beautiful, surprisingly addictive, and genuinely useful.
County-level interactive map visualizing unemployment, obesity, and population data across the United States.
Procedural map generation using noise algorithms. Every click produces an entirely new world with its own geography.
Chrome new-tab extension for tracking daily tasks. Shipped, used daily, and still running in my browser.
A clickable narrative game where each choice branches into new paths. Build and explore your own story tree.
A couple of tools for a tabletop RPG session. Dice rolling, initiative tracking, and D&D spell reference.
Outside Life
There's a long list of places I want to see, but only so much time to get there.
Love a lil coffee break & a sweet treat along the way.
I love working with my hands and an excuse for a desk detox. I took a few semesters of wheel pottery in 2024 and 2025 and loved it. Taking a break right now & looking for a new outlet.
It took ages to figure out getting higher walls, and I still have very weighty bottoms. Don't ask me how to do glazing.
I'm an aspiring plant dad, and these kids stress me out. I love my well behaved kids the most, but each one has a special place in my heart. The main thing I've learned is that any plant I'm gifted will die.
About me
I'm Vir — a software engineer based in New York, NY. I studied Computer Science at UCLA and have been working in the industry for 9+ years. I started learning to code in high school, and have stuck with it since. I like building things that people use, that helps or impacts real people.
When I'm not at a computer I'm usually planning a trip, watching a show, eating or cooking something yummy, trying to keep my plants alive, or sustaining myself on caffeine. Interested in tech, politics, personal finance, climate, cuisine, coffee, and many other things.
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