Manoj Vekaria
Lead Software Engineer at Recurrency
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManoj Vekaria is a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance web applications and developer tooling, currently shaping autonomous medical-supply delivery systems at Zipline. He has led frontend and full-stack efforts at fast-growing startups and notable tech companies including Recurrency, Stripe, Mixpanel, and Microsoft, with a track record of shipping design systems, deployment automation, and complex UX features. Manoj contributes to open source—improving TypeScript’s JSX emission and compiler behavior—demonstrating deep familiarity with JavaScript tooling and runtime concerns. Based in Lakeland, Florida, he favors iterative, confidence-building development that scales from skateboard-speed prototypes to production rockets. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, fast feedback loops, and a knack for turning developer pain points into lasting platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of New South WalesUNSW Sydney
Swahili, Hindi, Gujarati, German
Github Skills (10)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
jsx10
compiler-development10
typechecker9
language-design9
testing8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/TypeScript
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 145 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Manoj primarily focused on improving the TypeScript compiler's JSX handling and related code generation. They made significant contributions to the `emitter.ts` file, optimizing the emission of JSX children. They also addressed issues related to whitespace in React JSX output and fixed a typo in an error message. Furthermore, the user added a new flag to enable declaration-only file output and added corresponding tests.
typecheckerjavascriptcleantype-checksuperset
mixpanel/snabbdom-jsx-lite
May 2020 - Nov 2021
Write snabbdom templates in .jsx or .tsx (JSX for TypeScript)
Contributions:37 commits, 4 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 6 months
reacttsxsnabbdomjsxtypescript
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