Neehar Venugopal
Co-Founder at Alt Inc
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNeehar Venugopal is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building high-scale consumer platforms and developer-facing tooling from Bengaluru. As Co-Founder of Alt Inc and former SVP at Paytm, he led platform and product engineering for experiences used by 100M+ monthly users, creating systems like a bespoke multi-platform frontend framework and an in-house server-driven UI. He was founding CTO at Paytm Insider, scaling engineering from a handful to 200+ people and designing fault-tolerant, high-burst ticketing systems that handle major live events. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, he contributes to prominent open-source projects such as webpack, improving ES6 plugin compatibility and bundler output behavior. Curious by nature and self-described “failed drummer,” Neehar blends product instincts with deep technical craft to build resilient, user-focused systems at scale. He’s also an early member of South Park Commons Bangalore, exploring what to break and rebuild next.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, First-class, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, First-class at Vidyalankar Institute of Technology, Mumbai
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (9)
loader10
s610
build-tools10
javascript10
bundle10
bundling10
webpacker10
webpack10
plugin9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
webpack/webpack
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
A bundler for javascript and friends. Packs many modules into a few bundled assets. Code Splitting allows for loading parts of the application on demand. Through "loaders", modules can be CommonJs, AMD, ES6 modules, CSS, Images, JSON, Coffeescript, LESS, ... and your custom stuff.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Neehar primarily contributed to the webpack project, focusing on enhancing its functionality. Their work included updating and refactoring existing code related to plugins like DefinePlugin, specifically targeting ES6 (ES2015) compatibility. They also added support for the `jsonpScriptType` output option, stringifying the value for correct usage. Further modifications included moving the default script type option, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's structure.
amdloaderscode-splittingcustom-stuffcompiler
only-much-louder/react-ouibounce
Feb 2017 - Jun 2018
Displays a dialog/modal to users when leaving your site
Contributions:10 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
reactdialogmodaldisplaysreact-dom
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