Arsalan Khattak
Developer Advocate
Islamabad, Islamabad Capital Territory, Pakistan
Summary
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Top SchoolArsalan Khattak is a Developer Advocate with eight years of experience helping developers learn and adopt frontend technologies, blending hands-on contributions to Next.js with community leadership. A 2022 Computer Science graduate based in Islamabad, he transitioned from an introverted student to a seasoned public speaker who has presented at Google DevFest and Microsoft Reactor and created educational content for GitHub Education. He’s organized large-scale developer events in Pakistan—including the country’s first GitHub Field Day—and led campus and regional programs as a GitHub Campus Expert and a rare Gold Microsoft Student Ambassador. At Bryntum he focuses on improving SDK onboarding, documentation, and developer experience, while his open-source work on Next.js added PWA and sitemap examples and runtime data-fetching improvements. He also creates approachable frontend content on Instagram (@khattakdev) and has a track record of turning community feedback into product improvements.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at National University of Modern Languages (NUML)
Github Skills (9)
javascript10
nextjs10
react10
nodes9
pwapp9
nodejs9
server-side-rendering9
server-rendering8
ssg8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/next.js
Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
The React Framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 40 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Arsalan contributed to the Next.js framework by modifying existing example applications and implementing new features. They updated data fetching methods within the `with-cookie-auth-fauna` and `with-mongodb-mongoose` examples, transitioning data fetching logic from build time to runtime. The user also added the "with-sitemap" and "progressive-web-app" examples, enhancing the framework's capabilities for SEO and PWA development. Additionally, they addressed issues related to error handling within the react-dev-overlay package and improved prefetching behavior.
reactbrowserssgserver-renderingjavascript
khattakdev/khattakdev
Aug 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 9 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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