Nilesh Suthar is a seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience, currently serving as VP of Engineering at UnifyApps and previously scaling teams as Director of Engineering at Lyearn and co-founding two startups. He specializes in modern web stacks—Next.js, React, and JavaScript—while blending hands-on full‑stack work with strategic product and team leadership. His open-source contributions include front-end and blockchain-related work on notable projects like busyorg/busy and steem-js, demonstrating a comfort with both UI polish and transactional back-end logic. Nilesh is known for optimizing developer workflows (webpack, hot module replacement) and improving user-facing features such as infinite scrolling and auth flows, reflecting a pragmatic focus on performance and UX. Based in Dubai, he thrives in dynamic environments where creativity and engineering efficiency drive product-led growth.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Indian School Certificate, Indian School Certificate at Seventh Day Adventist
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Steem.js the official JavaScript library for Steem blockchain
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:7 releases, 58 commits, 26 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nilesh primarily contributed to the `steem-js` library by adding and modifying broadcast methods related to blockchain operations. These changes involved creating new functions for actions like transferring vesting, withdrawing vesting, creating limit orders, and more. The user also updated existing methods by changing method names to camelcase.
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:386 commits, 97 PRs, 186 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nilesh primarily contributed to front-end development, implementing UI features and integrating them with back-end logic. They refactored the application to use Webpack for bundling and hot module replacement. The user added new features and implemented improvements to feed features, including infinite scrolling. They also made changes to enable user authentication through SteemConnect, including updates to the login flow and UI integration.
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