Bhargav Ponnapalli
Founder at Nextbase
Telangana, India
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Top SchoolBhargav Ponnapalli is a founder and seasoned front-end engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web apps and SaaS products using Next.js, TypeScript, React, GraphQL and Postgres. He founded Nextbase, a Next.js + Supabase starter kit used by YC-backed startups and indie makers, and is building Unbound to run parallel coding agents locally or in the cloud. Previously a senior/front-end lead at Contra, Team SoloMid (blitz.gg) and Belong, he combines product-focused engineering with hands-on implementation and testing discipline. An active open-source contributor and creator of rooks.js, he improved developer ergonomics in widely used projects like styled-components and contributed UX enhancements to cdnjs. Comfortable across stacks, he also codes in Rust, Go and Swift, bringing a practical polyglot mindset to front-end-first systems.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Tenth, Tenth at DAV KanchanbaghBachelor of Engineering (B E), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B E), Computer Science at BITS Pilani Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Telugu, Sanskrit
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (25)
javascript10
npm10
testing10
css10
typescript10
styled-components10
webpack10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
bootstrap9
error-handling9
bootstra9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
imbhargav5/rooks
Nov 2018 - Nov 2022
Essential React custom hooks ⚓ to super charge your components!
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 231 reviews, 1663 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Bhargav primarily focused on developing React custom hooks, evident from the repository's description and the commits. They added new hooks, including a counter and those for handling window events, and modified existing ones to add features like array manipulation. Additionally, the user updated the documentation with example code using the Storybook examples, demonstrating frontend development skills.
react-modalreactreact-hooksrooksessential
styled-components/styled-components
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Visual primitives for the component age. Use the best bits of ES6 and CSS to style your apps without stress 💅
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 12 PRs, 28 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Bhargav primarily focused on improving error handling and developer experience within the styled-components library. Their commits involved adding and refining error messages to provide more informative feedback when developers make common mistakes, particularly when interpolating React elements or non-styled components within styles. They also added a new global styling API, and made associated test case modifications, showcasing a focus on usability and maintainability within the library's core functionality.
reactagecssjavascriptcss-in-js
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