Kiran Dash
Founding Engineer at Vantient
Singapore, Singapore
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Top SchoolKiran Dash is a Founding Engineer and full-stack developer based in Singapore with over 10 years of experience building production-grade web applications and leading frontend teams. He has a strong track record in fintech and crypto trading platforms, having architected reusable component libraries, improved real-time orderbook performance with web workers, and introduced keyboard accessibility for complex UIs. At Vantient he combined Gen AI, Lexical and messaging integrations to deliver an AI-powered roster, rich text editor, and WhatsApp task manager, reflecting a knack for blending ML and UX. A practical contributor to Facebook’s popular Lexical editor, he focuses on robust editor behavior and cross-platform edge cases like Android backspace and code-block selection. Comfortable from prototyping to production support, Kiran pairs hands-on coding (React, TypeScript, Next.js) with team leadership, sprint ownership, and a keen attention to developer ergonomics.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Biju Patnaik University of Technology, Odisha
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Github Skills (21)
debug10
javascript10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
lexical10
typescripts10
react10
css9
html9
angular6
php6
google-chrome6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/lexical
Jun 2023 - Apr 2025
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 25 PRs, 41 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Kiran primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Lexical text editor framework. Their work included addressing issues related to Android backspace functionality, ensuring correct table cell merge behavior, and fixing text formatting issues within the playground. They also improved the typeahead menu functionality and selection boundaries within code blocks, demonstrating a focus on improving core editor features and user interactions.
contenteditableexcellentwysiwygrich-text-editorperformance
kirandash/django-react-imdb
May 2020 - May 2020
IMDB clone, movie rating website built with Django and React.
Contributions:37 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
reactpythonmovie-rating-websitedjango-rest-frameworkdjango
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