Koustov Maitra
Co-Founder at CreoWis Technologies
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKoustov Maitra is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and architecting scalable applications, now co-founding CreoWis Technologies from Bengaluru. He has held senior technical leadership roles including Principal Engineer at Ping Identity and Solutions Architect at Micro Focus, bringing deep experience in system design and delivery across enterprise products. A hands-on full-stack practitioner, he contributes to open-source projects like ReactPlay—adding TypeScript support and UI enhancements to help developers learn React faster. He mentors engineering teams and bridges product and implementation, known for pragmatic solutions that simplify complex workflows. Based in India with a B.Tech. in Computer Science, he combines startup grit with enterprise-grade engineering discipline. An under-the-radar strength is his focus on developer learning experiences, evident from his sustained open-source work to make onboarding into modern front-end stacks smoother.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
react-hooks9
css9
jsx8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
reactplay/react-play
Apr 2022 - Jan 2023
react-play is an opensource platform that helps you learn ReactJS faster with hands-on practice model. It is a collection of projects that you can use to learn ReactJS.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:272 reviews, 135 commits, 75 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Koustov primarily contributed to the front-end development of the ReactPlay platform, specifically adding TypeScript support and integrating it into existing React components. The changes involve modifying CSS files to include TypeScript-specific styling and updating component templates to use TypeScript syntax. The user also added support for new language-specific icons within the playlist view.
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koustov/css-builder
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
CSS Builder is a unique application to learn, adapt, develop and test CSS snippets. It's being developed as a library which means anyone can consume it and provide form customization for their product in real time.
Contributions:12 reviews, 43 commits, 35 PRs in 2 months
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