Er Bhandari
Lead Engineer at Takeo
Kathmandu Metropolitan City, Bagmati Province, Nepal
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Top SchoolEr Bhandari is a Lead Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript applications using Node.js, Express, NestJS, and Vue/React, currently driving engineering efforts at Takeo. He combines backend API design with front-end delivery and has moved up from senior roles into technical leadership while maintaining hands-on development. An active open-source contributor, he’s added locale-aware validators to validator.js and improved NestJS i18n support, reflecting attention to globalization and robustness. His side projects show a knack for system polishing and UX tweaks—ranging from Hyprland configuration and shell tooling to display manager theming—revealing enthusiasm for developer ergonomics and desktop customization. Based in Kathmandu, he blends pragmatic product-focused engineering with a community-minded FOSS mindset, often contributing nuanced fixes like new validators and template engine integrations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Engineering at Himalaya College Of Engineering
English
Github Skills (31)
string-validation10
javascript10
rails-i18n10
validations10
scripting10
configuration-management10
typescript10
dotfile10
validation10
nestjs10
hyper10
regular-expression10
script10
ember-i18n10
hy10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
prasanthrangan/hyprdots
Apr 2024 - Dec 2024
// Aesthetic, dynamic and minimal dots for Arch hyprland
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:80 reviews, 52 PRs, 299 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Er primarily contributed to the Hyprland configuration project by implementing and modifying shell scripts and configuration files. Their work involved adding and updating themes, especially for the SDDM display manager and Fish shell. They also made significant changes to keybindings and other utilities, refining the user experience and system functionality of the Hyprland environment.
archarchlinuxdolphindotfilesdots
toonvanstrijp/nestjs-i18n
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
The i18n module for nestjs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 27 reviews, 21 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Er primarily contributed to the i18n module, focusing on adding EJS template engine support and fixing formatting in exception messages. They modified the i18n module to integrate EJS for view rendering, and implemented detailed error messages. The user also made improvements to the validation filter and added options for error details within the application, and updated the project to NestJS v9.
nestjsnestnodejstypescripti18n
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