Nitin Kumar
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolNitin Kumar is a Frontend Engineer with 7 years of experience, currently at Deel after impactful frontend and infrastructure roles at Razorpay and as a core contributor to Webpack. He’s driven large-scale improvements—upgrading monorepos to webpack 5, implementing differential serving, and cutting build times and release cycles significantly—while also building migration tooling and design-system components. An active open-source maintainer, Nitin contributes to high-profile projects like webpack and eslint (affecting millions of npm users) and has hands-on experience across full-stack, testing, and backend work. Based in Delhi, he blends pragmatic engineering with developer tooling expertise, and his background shows a knack for improving developer experience through tooling, docs, and subtle UX fixes that often go unnoticed but unlock team productivity.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, ECE, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, ECE at Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of Technology, Delhi
English, Hindi, Sanskrit
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
python10
testing10
emberjs10
html-webpack-plugin10
middleware10
javascript10
event-handling10
bundle10
rule-engine10
doc10
api10
front-end-development10
html10
test-automation10
cli10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
webpack/webpack-dev-server
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Serves a webpack app. Updates the browser on changes. Documentation https://webpack.js.org/configuration/dev-server/.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:662 reviews, 419 commits, 891 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nitin's commits focused primarily on bug fixes and refactoring within the webpack-dev-server codebase. The contributions included fixing typos, updating CLI flags, and removing redundant code declarations. The user also made several improvements to tests, which included fixing existing tests and adding new test cases. Additionally, the user worked on improving the description for CLI options and implementing features related to the `client` and `server` options.
dev-serveronchangewebpackserverhot-reload
webpack/webpack-dev-middleware
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
A development middleware for webpack
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:205 reviews, 64 commits, 239 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Nitin primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `webpack-dev-middleware` project. Their work included implementing new features, such as adding a method to retrieve filenames from URLs. They also focused on improving code quality by refactoring and fixing linting warnings. Additionally, the user updated the project's build process, including migrating to `nanocolors` and updating the `lint-staged` configuration.
middlewarewebpackwebpack-dev-middleware
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