Talha Naqvi
Senior Staff Developer at Shopify
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolTalha Naqvi is a Senior Staff Developer with a decade of experience specializing in high-performance cross-platform mobile development, currently leading performance for the Shopify app from Vancouver. He is the creator and a principal contributor to RecyclerListView and has driven significant Android work on Shopify’s Flash List, optimizing complex layouts, masonry support, and scroll handling for React Native. Talha blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, having led core cross-platform teams and apps quality at Flipkart before moving into senior roles at Shopify. He has a track record of improving runtime performance and developer productivity through pragmatic platform enablers and thoughtful refactors. Early experience building widely downloaded Windows Phone apps informs his strong user-focused approach to telemetry and iterative improvement.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science and Engineering at Bundelkhand Institute Of Engineering and Technology, Jhansi
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
react-native10
android-recyclerview10
android-development10
recyclerview10
rendering9
render9
mobile-development9
performance-monitor9
layout9
layoutmanager9
typescript9
typescript-types9
performance-analysis9
typescripts9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/flash-list
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
A better list for React Native
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:15 releases, 88 reviews, 320 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Talha primarily contributed to the development of the Android application, focusing on the implementation and improvement of layout and view components within the RecyclerListView framework. Their commits involved fixing layout issues, enhancing the performance of horizontal and vertical lists, and adding support for masonry layouts, as well as implementing methods for handling scroll offsets and event handling. The user also refactored code to improve code readability, adding comments and addressing the handling of various rendering scenarios, including those related to header and footer elements.
reactreact-nativewindowingandroid
Flipkart/recyclerlistview
Apr 2017 - Oct 2022
High performance listview for React Native and web!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 releases, 23 reviews, 372 commits in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Talha contributed significantly to the `recyclerlistview` project, demonstrating a strong understanding of React Native development. They primarily focused on feature implementations, adding support for features like footer rendering, scroll-to actions, and incremental loading, alongside bug fixes to existing features. The user also made notable changes in web support for Recyclerlistview.
iosrecyclerviewjavascriptflatlist-alternativereact
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