Bassam Ismail
Director Of Engineering at Manning Publications Co.
Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India
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Top SchoolBassam Ismail is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience leading frontend teams and shipping products used by millions. Based in Srinagar, he has risen through multiple leadership roles at Axelerant—from Software Architect to Director—combining hands-on frontend expertise with experience in Drupal, Go, and AWS. He mentors engineers, drives delivery excellence, and has influenced developer tooling and accessibility through contributions to prominent open-source projects like Svelte. His background includes principal engineering stints and freelance-style roles that reflect a breadth of technical ownership across remote and distributed teams. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he balances product-focused engineering with attention to UX and accessibility details that are often overlooked.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at University of KashmirBurn Hall School
English, Hindi, Kashmiri
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Github Skills (12)
uid10
javascript10
svelte10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
template-engine9
template-tags9
templater9
accessibility9
compiler-compiler8
compiler8
testing7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
sveltejs/svelte
Jun 2020 - Dec 2021
web development for the rest of us
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 9 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Bassam contributed to the Svelte repository by addressing various aspects of the framework. They fixed a bug related to contenteditable bindings and added accessibility checks for label and media elements. Additionally, the user worked on code related to input elements and made tweened options optional in types. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and accessibility of the framework.
web-developmenttemplateuicompiler
axelerant-trainings-frontend/grocery-plus
Oct 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:36 reviews, 13 PRs, 17 pushes in 7 days
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