Mangala Khalsa
Senior Software Engineer at Checkbook
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolMangala Khalsa is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building enterprise web and mobile-first applications, currently focused at Checkbook in Phoenix. She specializes in React, React Native, TypeScript, Redux, TDD and CI/CD practices, delivering performant, maintainable code and strong user experiences. A long-time contributor to the Dojo ecosystem and member of the dgrid core team, she has a proven track record of improving accessibility, security (CSP), and complex UI behavior in widely used open-source libraries. Her background includes leading front-end development for a startup that was acquired for $25M, mentoring junior engineers, and consulting across finance, hospitality, and travel. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, she often tackles subtle cross-browser and a11y issues that others overlook, bridging legacy toolkit expertise with modern JavaScript stacks.
14 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at New Mexico Military InstituteB.S., Computer Science & Engineering, B.S., Computer Science & Engineering at Northern Arizona University
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
html10
css10
dojo10
uid10
debugging10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
tool-kit10
testing9
rails-i18n9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
user-interface8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dojo/dojo1-dgrid
Feb 2012 - Sep 2020
A lightweight, mobile-ready, data-driven, modular grid widget designed for use with dstore
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 128 commits in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Mangala primarily contributed to the front-end components of the `dgrid` library. They fixed bugs related to the loading message and no data message in the `Pagination` extension and implemented functionality for displaying a grid in a hidden node. They also addressed issues with column resizing, column hiding, and selection behavior within the grid. Several commits focused on enhancing the library's usability through various bug fixes and UI improvements, with a focus on making dgrid more robust.
dstoremobiledgriddojojavascript
dojo/dojo
Oct 2014 - Jul 2021
Dojo 1 - the Dojo 1 toolkit core library.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 20 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Mangala contributed to the Dojo 1 toolkit core library by addressing several bug fixes and implementing new features. They debugged context binding issues in debounce and throttle functions, as well as added support for strict mode in declare and implemented optimizations for the i18n API. Furthermore, the user added support for pointer events within the dnd/Moveable module and improved the request/script and request/xhr modules.
core-librarydojo-toolkitjavascript
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