Santosh Yadav
Principal Developer Advocate - Open Source
Hollern-Twielenfleth, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSantosh Yadav is a Principal Developer Advocate and seasoned software engineer with 17+ years of programming experience and a strong focus on developer experience, accessibility, and Angular ecosystem tooling. He has driven large-scale migrations and performance wins—leading module federation rollouts, shaving build times from 60 to under 20 minutes, and cutting multi-megabyte bundle bloat across monorepos—often translating technical improvements into multimillion-dollar business impact. An active open-source contributor and recognized community figure (GDE Angular, GitHub Star, MVP, Nrwl champion), Santosh has contributed to flagship projects like angular/angular, ngrx/platform and angular-cli, improving docs, schematics, router and i18n features. Based in Germany, he blends hands-on engineering, advocacy and teaching—running workshops that increased Nx and Angular adoption across hundreds of developers—and co-founded an educational OSS initiative to amplify learning.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer, Diploma Computer at Shreeram PolytechnicSSC SSC, SSC SSC at Dayanand Vedic Vidyalaya MulundBachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Computer Science at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
ngrx10
typescript10
rxjs10
schematic10
angular-cli10
typescript-types10
state-management10
web-framework10
typescripts10
documentation10
angular10
routers9
router9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
ngrx/platform
Mar 2019 - Nov 2022
Reactive State for Angular
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 20 commits, 29 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Santosh primarily contributed to the Angular-based frontend and related schematics within the ngrx/platform repository. Their commits involve refactoring schematics, updating Angular dependencies, and adding features like a title selector. The changes also included updating documentation and refining the entity system's behavior. The user demonstrates proficiency in working with Angular, schematics, and the overall ngrx ecosystem.
unidirectional-data-flowrxjsstate-managementobservablesngrx
angular/angular
Mar 2019 - May 2021
Deliver web apps with confidence 🚀
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 reviews, 62 commits, 65 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Santosh primarily contributed to the Angular framework's documentation and examples. Their commits focused on updating and adding content to the documentation, including adding examples of SVG usage and dynamic forms. They also made changes to the router and i18n features. The user also contributed to code fixes, such as correcting ngSwitch definitions and filtering events in the router.
reactjavascriptpwanodejsweb-developer
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