Nima Izadi
Engineering Leader at Hopper
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolNima Izadi is a senior engineering manager with 15 years building product-focused engineering teams and shipping customer-facing web and mobile experiences across startups and scale-ups. He’s led engineering and product teams at companies including Shopify, Wealthsimple, Hopper and now Capital One, growing teams, introducing TypeScript and testing practices, and driving international and performance-sensitive features like Shopify Pay and dynamic checkout. A hands-on former CTO and co-founder, he blends strategic roadmapping with deep front-end craft—contributing to notable open-source projects such as the popular react-native scrollable tab view and the community-driven confs.tech. Based in Barcelona, he brings strong cross-cultural product experience (France, Germany, Japan) and a knack for turning complex UX requirements into performant, maintainable implementations. Beyond engineering leadership he curates developer communities (creator of tech-conferences) and pursues street photography, reflecting a designer’s attention to visual detail in product work.
15 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Asian Institute of TechnologyEngineer & Master degree Computer Science, Engineer & Master degree Computer Science at Polytech Nice Sophia
French, Persian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,004reputation
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Github Skills (28)
javascript10
react-native10
data-validation10
video-conferencing10
testing10
css10
configuration-management10
user-interface10
front-end-development10
conferencing10
react10
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
api7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tech-conferences/confs.tech
Aug 2017 - Dec 2022
Frontend for https://confs.tech
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 41 reviews, 382 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nima primarily contributed to the front-end of the `confs.tech` repository. They implemented features like sorting conferences by date and added a loading state. They also made design updates by removing the Polaris UI and implementing custom styled components. The user also added a component to see past conferences and added filters for the user.
dev-ops-conferencesreactruby-conferencesux-conferencespython-conferences
tech-conferences/conference-data
Jul 2018 - Oct 2022
Conference data for www.confs.tech
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:35 reviews, 89 commits, 686 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Nima primarily contributed to the configuration and data integrity of the conference data repository. They added new topics such as "elm", "closure", "product", "leadership", "api", "accessibility", and "performance" to the configuration files, demonstrating a clear understanding of the project's scope. Additionally, they added and modified valid locations for conferences and expanded the list of valid fields, as well as implementing unit tests, and assertions. These contributions enhance the repository's functionality and data quality.
conferencesjavascriptcrowdsourcing
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