Nafees Nehar
Engineer at BrowserStack
India
Summary
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Top SchoolNafees Nehar is a pragmatic software engineer and founding engineer with six years of experience building secure, user-focused web applications from India. He currently contributes to Requestly (YC W22) and works at BrowserStack, blending startup agility with product-scale engineering. His backend expertise spans Node.js, TypeScript, socket.io, and database design, demonstrated in an open-source end-to-end encrypted chat project that handles link management, delivery receipts, and session limits. Comfortable refactoring APIs and improving real-time systems, he balances reliability with developer ergonomics. Nafees brings a BTech in Information Technology from ABV-IIITM and a penchant for shipping practical security features that quietly improve user trust.
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and ManagementHigh School, Pure Science, High School, Pure Science at Dav Public School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
api-design9
socket-io9
chat9
rest-api8
encryption8
mongodb-database7
mongodb7
firebase6
firebase-hosting6
react6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
muke1908/chat-e2ee
Aug 2020 - Oct 2020
End-to-end encrypted disposable chat & audio-call sessions, exchange sensitive information with peer safely and securely.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Nafees primarily contributed to the back-end functionalities of the chat application. Their work involved implementing features such as chat link management (creation, deletion, validation), message delivery receipts, and user limits. Key changes include modifications to the API endpoints, socket.io integration, and database interactions using technologies like JavaScript, TypeScript, and Node.js. The user also refactored API structures and improved timestamp handling.
anonymouslyend-to-endtypesciptchatjavascript
nafees87n/codebox
Dec 2020 - Oct 2021
codeBox RCE is a service that provides a remote environment to run your code in. Execution occurs in a containerized space. The API supports programming in 3 languages (Python, Javascript and C++), potentially extendable to support more.
Contributions:7 reviews, 75 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
apipythonjavascriptcontainerizedrce
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