Aditya Thakral
Software Engineer at Stripe
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAditya Thakral is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing and consumer web tooling, currently at Stripe after several Visual Studio roles at Microsoft. He brings deep front-end expertise in React and TypeScript from multiple stints at Shopify—where he contributed to Polaris and the quilt utilities—and has a track record of shipping performance and tooling improvements like preconnect optimization and remote module loading. Early work includes backend and API performance tuning, TypeScript migrations, and measurable speedups in production systems. Comfortable across full-stack workflows, he blends large-company rigor with open-source collaboration, and has a habit of turning internal utilities (like react-shortcuts and react-import-remote) into reusable components for broader teams.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Amity International School, Gurgaon Sector 46B.CS. Computer Science, B.CS. Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Hindi, Punjabi
Github Skills (7)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
testing9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/quilt
Jun 2018 - Dec 2020
[⚠️ Deprecated] A loosely related set of packages for JavaScript/TypeScript projects at Shopify
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Aditya primarily focused on developing and enhancing the `react-shortcuts` package within the `shopify/quilt` repository. Their contributions involved adding new functionality such as better key types and incorporating modifier keys for shortcut support. Additionally, the user created and integrated a new package `react-import-remote` to enable remote module loading. They also worked on implementing preconnect links for performance improvements.
react-modaljavascriptshopify-apijavascript-typescriptcjs
9at8/emacs.d
Nov 2018 - Dec 2021
An Emacs configuration bundle with batteries included
Contributions:2 PRs, 24 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 1 month
batteries-includedbundlebatteriesemacs-configurationspacemacs
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