Karan Thakkar
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKaran Thakkar is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building backend systems at high-scale companies including Reddit, TransferWise, and Skyscanner. He combines production-grade engineering with open-source craftsmanship, contributing notable fixes to the widely used npm-check-updates tool to improve prerelease version handling. Comfortable operating across the dependency and release surface areas, he brings deep practical knowledge of versioning, package management, and reliable release behavior. A graduate in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Karan blends a systems-oriented engineering background with a track record of shipping resilient services in fast-moving, user-facing platforms.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 70.68, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 70.68 at Kolhapur Institute of Technology's College of Engineering
Gujarati, Marathi, Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
414reputation
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7answers
18questions
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
nodejs10
npm10
sem10
testing8
chai8
face-detection6
windows6
opencv6
jquery6
visual-studio6
jquery-mobile6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
raineorshine/npm-check-updates
Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
Find newer versions of package dependencies than what your package.json allows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 5 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Karan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the npm-check-updates tool, focusing on handling prerelease versions. They implemented and refined logic for fetching and comparing package versions, particularly addressing the `--pre` flag. These changes included modifications to the `npm.js` file for handling different version filtering behaviors and adding tests to ensure prerelease filtering functions correctly.
dependenciesnpm-check-updatespackage-jsonnpm-clinodejs
karanjthakkar/test.github.io
Jul 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:28 releases, 16 PRs, 93 pushes in 8 months
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