Rifat Nabi
Principal Engineer at Atlassian
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRifat Nabi is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with 15 years of experience designing scalable web and collaboration systems, currently shaping the frontend architecture of Atlassian’s Editor used across Jira, Confluence, Trello and Bitbucket. He blends hands-on full-stack development with systems analysis and design, driving extensibility and performance while mentoring teams and setting frontend best practices. An adaptable problem-solver, he has contributed to notable open-source work such as enhancing Yarn’s interactive upgrade and package management features, demonstrating attention to developer UX and tooling stability. His background spans platform architecture, DevOps, and multilingual open-source projects—including work on Bengali language tooling—underscoring a rare combination of product-facing UI expertise and deep platform-level engineering.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Science & Engineering at East West University
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Github Skills (29)
javascript10
npm10
twitter-bootstrap10
jquery10
command-line-interface10
angular-ui-router10
yarnpkg10
command-line10
nodejs10
package-manager10
cli10
testing9
append9
inquirer9
windows9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
yarnpkg/yarn
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 30 PRs, 9 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Rifat primarily worked on enhancing the interactive upgrade functionality within the Yarn package manager, including adding features like interactive update and support for --exact and --tilde flags. They made changes across multiple files including core command files and related configuration files. Additionally, they addressed several bugs related to global package management and packing processes, contributing to the overall stability and usability of Yarn.
yarnpkgyarnnpmpackage-managerjavascript
torifat/playground
Apr 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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