Sallar Kaboli
Staff Software Engineer at ClickUp
Espoo, Mainland Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolSallar Kaboli is a Staff Software Engineer based in Espoo, Finland with 15+ years building web and mobile products and a clear passion for open source. He blends hands-on front-end expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript and the React ecosystem with practical use of Rust, Swift and Dart to solve platform-specific problems. Sallar has shipped production systems at startups and scale-ups—founding projects like Buttercup, leading engineering at RedDoor (acquired by Opendoor), and now driving major product areas and AI/integrations at ClickUp. He contributes notable front-end work to popular OSS projects such as Kap and a GitHub contributions chart tool, often owning UI/UX improvements and tooling that enhance developer and user workflows. Pragmatic about choosing the right tool for the job, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts from multiple founder roles with deep implementation experience across cloud-native stacks. Notably, his GitHub-first practice means much of his craft and experimentation is visible and reusable by the community.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
Stackoverflow
730reputation
67kreached
2answers
23questions
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
css10
user-interface10
html10
react10
donation9
electron9
iphone-app8
macos8
application8
github8
android-app8
ui-design8
nextjs7
cookie6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
sallar/github-contributions-chart
Apr 2018 - Jan 2023
:octocat: Generate an image of all your Github contributions
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 123 commits, 72 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sallar's primary contribution involved developing the front-end for a GitHub contributions chart generator. They established the initial structure of the application with React, including the core components and basic layout. Subsequent commits added functionality to draw the contributions chart utilizing a custom drawing module. Further, they incorporated styling, implemented theme selection, and added features like a download button and share functionality, enhancing the user interface and overall user experience.
contributions-chart
wulkano/Kap
Dec 2017 - Feb 2018
An open-source screen recorder built with web technology
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 33 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sallar primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Kap screen recorder. They implemented new UI features, such as a ratio selector with custom dropdown, and added a mute/unmute button to the editor. They also addressed various bug fixes and made improvements to the existing UI, including changes related to the cropper window, fullscreen functionality, and coordinates. Furthermore, they updated the size selector and window management, improving the overall user experience.
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