Basarat Syed
Product Owner at BaseBall Blitz
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolBasarat Syed is a product-minded engineering leader and founder with 13+ years of experience building front-end platforms, developer tools, and developer education from Melbourne. As founder of BooleanArt and a Microsoft TypeScript MVP, he creates widely followed educational content (150K+ YouTube subscribers) and publishes the authoritative open-source TypeScript book used across the community. He’s led teams at Pepperstone, SEEK and Australia Post, shipping mobile trading apps, onboarding replatforms and shared component libraries that drive cross-team productivity. A prolific open-source contributor, his work touches core TypeScript, Typestyle and collections libraries, improving type safety and developer experience at scale. Basarat combines hands-on engineering—compiler and language-service fixes—to product ownership and mentoring, often helping junior developers pro bono. He focuses on unifying teams through shared standards and platforms so developers can deliver delightful user experiences.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityBE Telecommunication, BE Telecommunication at National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
English
Stackoverflow
269,584reputation
33.1mreached
4,031answers
92questions
browser
top-5%
regex
top-5%
access-modifiers
top-1%
es6-promise
top-1%
serialization
top-5%
decorator
top-5%
Github Skills (91)
access-modifiers10
css-in-js10
http10
language-service10
visual-studio10
jsx10
javascript10
middleware10
type-check10
jquery10
es6-promise10
enums10
webstorm10
html10
typescripts10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
basarat/typescript-book
Mar 2015 - Oct 2022
:books: The definitive guide to TypeScript and possibly the best TypeScript book :book:. Free and Open Source 🌹
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1126 commits, 362 PRs, 1161 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Basarat contributed significantly to the codebase, demonstrating proficiency in TypeScript, ES6 features, and front-end development. The user's commits included implementing new features such as template strings, destructuring, and `for...of` loops, and also adding type annotations and fixing type errors. They also worked on code for ES6 classes, mixins, and type guards. The user's contributions show a focus on enhancing the TypeScript-based development of the project.
typescripttypescript-booktypescript-community
alm-tools/alm
Aug 2015 - Nov 2020
:rose: A :cloud: ready IDE just for TypeScript :heart:
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 2369 commits, 355 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Basarat primarily worked on the front-end of the project, as evidenced by contributions related to user interface components and styling. Their commits focus on implementing and refining UI elements, incorporating features such as a "doctor" panel, search functionalities, and managing UI-specific states within the application. Furthermore, the user demonstrated proficiency in utilizing React components, styling, and managing overall visual layouts of the app.
heartidetypescriptrosenode
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.