Navdeep Rathore is a software engineer with six years of experience building developer-facing tools and maintaining a network interception desktop app built on Electron. As a founding engineer at Requestly (YC W22) he has been the core maintainer of the desktop app, its Node.js proxy, public API, and backend infra while also delivering rapid customer-facing workflows and onboarding. He currently holds a senior engineering role at BrowserStack, bringing practical expertise in distribution, integrations, and reliability. An active open-source contributor, he has improved cross-browser UX and keyboard navigation in web extensions like web-search-navigator, showing attention to accessibility and multi-platform quirks. Based in New Delhi, he combines product-focused engineering with hands-on operational ownership and a curiosity to “understand the internet, one request at a time.”
6 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Hamirpur
Web extension that adds keyboard shortcuts to Google, YouTube, Github, Amazon, and others (Chrome/Firefox/Edge/Safari)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Navdeep primarily contributed to the development of the web extension's user interface and functionality. Their work included fixing bugs related to Firefox compatibility, implementing 4-key navigation on the YouTube homepage, and refactoring navigation key bindings. They also modified the search engine classes to enable grid navigation, and refined styling aspects, improving the overall user experience and functionality.
Contributions:16 releases, 37 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 10 months
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Navdeep Rathore - Senior Software Engineer at BrowserStack