Arijit Layek
Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian
Greater Bengaluru Area India
Summary
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Top SchoolArijit Layek is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable front-end architectures and orchestration systems, currently driving workflow automation at Atlassian. He combines deep TypeScript and Type-Driven Design expertise with hands-on experience in React, Tailwind, Golang, Java, and Python to deliver performant, maintainable products. At Tesco he led the UI architecture for a modular EDS component library and launched an internal developer portal used by 5k+ engineers, reflecting a talent for developer experience and large-team impact. Past work includes measurable performance wins—such as Brotli compression and TTI improvements at Atlassian and a 30–40% app startup speedup at Cure.Fit—demonstrating a practical focus on user-facing metrics. Trained at IIT Kharagpur, he also volunteers with FreeCodeCamp and brings a pragmatic full‑stack mindset informed by systems and embedded-signal processing roots.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Visual Information Processing and Embedded Systems, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Visual Information Processing and Embedded Systems at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (108)
github10
certification10
chat10
collaboration10
javascript10
git10
slack10
nodejs10
meteor10
webrtc10
communications10
docker-image10
css10
codebase10
math10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
alayek/backend-challenges
Apr 2016 - Jul 2016
To create and test non-JS challenges for freecodecamp https://freecodecamp.com
Contributions:16 commits, 16 PRs, 17 pushes in 3 months
js
alayek/wiki
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:36 pushes, 28 branches in 2 months
campwikifree-codecode-camp
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