Nausher Rao
Senior Software Engineer at Mappedin
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNausher Rao is a Senior Software Engineer and repeat founder with 11 years of hands-on experience building product-grade web and event platforms, currently leading engineering at Mappedin and serving as Founder & CEO of Konfer. He blends full-stack development (React, TypeScript, Go, Rails) with large-scale operational leadership—managing multi-hundred-thousand dollar budgets, coordinating venue and AV infrastructure for 120,000 sq. ft. events, and delivering Canada’s largest in-person hackathon by project submissions. A long-time open-source and contributor, he improved front-end UI for Shopify’s CLI and has shipped developer-facing tooling used by thousands daily. Nausher’s career started with freelance game-server work at age 10 and a lifelong passion for game development, giving him uncommon product empathy for developer and gamer workflows. He pairs academic depth in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics with a knack for turning volunteer-led organizations into scalable, investor-ready products and platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science - BS , Computer Science and Applied Mathematics w/ Co-op, Honours Bachelor of Science - BS , Computer Science and Applied Mathematics w/ Co-op at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Coláiste Pobail SetantaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Middlefield Collegiate Institute
French, English, Urdu, Irish, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
html10
css10
cli10
typescript-types7
typescript7
typescripts7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/cli
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
Build apps, themes, and hydrogen storefronts for Shopify
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 37 commits, 12 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nausher primarily contributed to the UI components of the Shopify CLI, focusing on the HTML and CSS rendering of different screens. They created new HTML files for various states (success, errors, etc.) and updated existing HTML files with the correct styling. The user also made styling improvements to the application by adding CSS and modifying the existing stylesheet file. This effort involved significant updates to the front-end presentation of the application.
cliecommercehydrogenoclifthemes
LaurierHawkHacks/ComingSoon
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
The coming soon page for HawkHacks 2022
Contributions:1 release, 1 review, 1 PR in 2 years 8 months
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