Yaapa Hage
UI UX Architect at BuhoVision AI
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolYaapa Hage is a UI/UX Architect and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native systems and developer tooling from Bengaluru. He has driven architectural initiatives at IBM—designing extensible UI and data plugin frameworks and Kubernetes deployments—and now leads product and design at Brownloop while founding BuhoVision AI, where he amusingly blends AI with martial arts training. A long-time LoopBack and Express.js contributor, his open-source work spans middleware robustness, HTTP server modularity, and UI/documentation improvements for widely used Node.js projects. Yaapa combines deep backend expertise (connectors, data modeling, API design) with hands-on front-end craft, consistently shipping practical, maintainable solutions. Unusually for a technologist, his background includes medical training (MBBS), reflecting a discipline and attention to detail that inform both his engineering and mentorship.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) at JIPMER
English, Hindi, Spanish
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Github Skills (45)
application-framework10
api-rest10
authorizations10
javascript10
middleware10
expressjs10
back-end-development10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
data-modeling10
css10
app-framework10
http10
responsive-design10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
loopbackio/loopback-connector-mongodb
May 2019 - Dec 2020
The official MongoDB connector for the LoopBack framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 70 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Yaapa primarily contributed to the LoopBack MongoDB connector, focusing on enhancing its functionality and maintainability. Their work involved improving code clarity by using meaningful variable names and modernizing the codebase by replacing `var` with `let` and `const`. The user also implemented the addition of `mongodb.dataType` to property definitions and preserved the ObjectID data type across all properties. Furthermore, they addressed an issue with preserving the ID during updates and implemented other changes to improve the connector's functionality.
loopbackconnectorloopback4nodejsmongodb
expressjs/multer
Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
Node.js middleware for handling `multipart/form-data`.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Yaapa primarily contributed to the development of the `multer` middleware for Node.js. Their commits focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the middleware, including handling errors, adding features from the `busboy` library, and fixing bugs related to file uploads and empty fields. The user's changes improved the core file-handling logic, error management, and overall stability of the library.
node-jsmultipart-formnodejshandlingform-data
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