Piyal Basu
Software Engineer at Stellar Development Foundation
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPiyal Basu is a front-end software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience and a 9+ year focus on modern JavaScript, React, and responsive UX. He has driven front-end modernization and testing standards at companies from agencies to enterprises, leading efforts to adopt Hooks/Context, static typing, and robust E2E frameworks. At Stellar he’s contributed full-stack documentation improvements including a feature-flag implementation that touches core providers and navigation—showing a comfort with both UI and build-time concerns. He also brings DevOps fluency (Jenkins, GitLab, AWS, CI/CD) and a history of mentoring and interviewing engineers, ensuring code quality and team growth. Outside of code he’s a Brooklyn-based fried chicken enthusiast, hinting at a curious, culture-minded approach to life and work.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Advertising, Bachelor of Science, Advertising at Boston University
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Github Skills (14)
javascript10
feature-flags10
react10
gatsby10
documentation9
json6
objective-c6
html6
css6
font-size6
ios6
uiwebview6
youtube6
cordova6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
stellar/new-docs
Nov 2019 - Mar 2020
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 60 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Piyal primarily worked on implementing a feature flag pattern within the documentation site. This involved modifying core components, including `Providers`, and integrating a feature flag context. The changes also include updating build helpers and modifying the template and navigation components to support the feature flag implementation. Furthermore, they added a data query and structure for documentation, updating the navigation and layout components.
stellar/scaffold-soroban
May 2023 - May 2024
Soroban example dapps
Contributions:14 reviews, 6 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year
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