Vivek Bansal
Staff Software Engineer at Rubrik, Inc.
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVivek Bansal is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in front-end engineering, modern JavaScript, React, and CSS, currently driving UI work at Rubrik after roles at Harness and earlier firms. He builds application-agnostic components and plugins, favors learning by building, and regularly contributes to open source—improving libraries like Prism (adding JSX support and plugins) and refining react-contextmenu for better browser compatibility. His contributions span full-stack improvements as well, including enhancements to restful-react and refactors in a PHP CommonMark parser, showing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and developer ergonomics. Based in Bengaluru and trained as a mechanical engineer at IIT Indore, he blends engineering rigor with a hacker’s curiosity and a penchant for clean, reusable UI abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, 6.44, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, 6.44 at Indian Institute of Technology, IndoreClass X, Class X at Dilsukhnagar Public SchoolClass XII, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Class XII, Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry at Sri Chaitanya Junior College
Hindi, Telugu, English
Github Skills (25)
markdown10
markup10
javascript10
typescript10
php10
markdown-it10
commonmark10
rest10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
syntax-highlighting10
openapi10
react10
jsx10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
vkbansal/react-contextmenu
Jul 2015 - Aug 2020
Project is no longer maintained
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 releases, 327 commits, 110 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily focused on modifying the React-based context menu components. Their commits involve refactoring code, replacing merging operations, removing unnecessary cloning, and updating build processes. They also fixed an issue related to custom event handling for improved browser compatibility and integrated tests to ensure functionality. The changes indicate a focus on improving the codebase's efficiency, stability, and maintainability.
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PrismJS/prism
Jan 2015 - Feb 2017
Lightweight, robust, elegant syntax highlighting.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 9 PRs, 103 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily contributed to enhancing the Prism syntax highlighting library. They fixed a crlf issue in the show-invisibles plugin and added a React JSX definition, including examples and corresponding component files, showcasing their focus on frontend technologies. Furthermore, they implemented a highlight keywords plugin, extending the library's functionality and improving code readability. The user also fixed grammar in the documentation, demonstrating attention to detail and refinement of the project.
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