Abdullah Atta
Chief Executive Officer at Streetwriters Private Limited
Naushera, Punjab, Pakistan
Summary
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RockstarAbdullah Atta is a CEO and hands-on software engineer with a decade of experience building full-stack and back-end systems from Pakistan. He leads Streetwriters while actively contributing to notable open-source projects, including full-stack work on Notesnook—a privacy-focused, end-to-end encrypted Evernote alternative—and performance-sensitive tooling like the fdir directory crawler. Abdullah’s contributions span UI component design, low-level language toolchains (V language modules and JS backend), and robust CLI tooling, showing comfort across the stack and languages. He combines product leadership with practical engineering, often shipping UI/UX improvements and reliability fixes that directly improve developer and user experience. An attention to performance and developer ergonomics is evident in his benchmark-driven and test-backed contributions.
10 years of coding experience
English, Urdu, Punjabi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
asynchronous10
vlang10
programming-language10
javascript10
async10
jes10
typescript10
user-interface10
formatter10
ui-design10
uid10
compiler-compiler10
go10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
thecodrr/fdir
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
⚡ The fastest directory crawler & globbing library for NodeJS. Crawls 1m files in < 1s
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:32 releases, 15 reviews, 254 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Abdullah primarily contributed to refactoring and improving the fdir library. Their work included renaming variables, optimizing the codebase by using `util.promisify` and code reuse, and fixing inconsistencies between sync and async APIs. They also introduced unit tests, ensuring the library's reliability. In addition, the user updated benchmarks, and addressed compatibility issues.
fastestglobbing-libraryjavascripturl-parsingnodejs
streetwriters/notesnook
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
A fully open source & end-to-end encrypted note taking alternative to Evernote.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:67 releases, 427 reviews, 4640 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Abdullah primarily focused on implementing features related to internal link functionality in the Notesnook web application, adding support for both adding and removing internal links within notes. They also contributed to showing references and linked notes within properties. Additionally, the user worked on improving the UI and overall user experience by enhancing the action bar's functionality and fixing various UI issues within the application.
notesevernotenote-managmentreactjsmarkdown
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