Nirmal Rijal
Verified Expert in Engineering
Front-end Developer
Kathmandu, Central Development Region, Nepal
Toptal member since March 4, 2022
Nirmal is a front-end developer with over five years of experience and a passion for delivering immersive and engaging user experiences through efficient product development, proactive feature optimization, and relentless debugging. He has also worked on mobile and back-end projects with a solid front-end development background. Nirmal aspires to combine seasoned experience with solid technical skills to become an excellent front-end developer.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 4 years
- Git - 4 years
- Redux - 3 years
- React - 3 years
- WebSockets - 2 years
- React Native - 2 years
- TypeScript - 2 years
- Next.js - 1 year
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, MacOS, JavaScript
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a streaming platform where artists can stream and chat with lots of other features to help them earn and grow.
Work Experience
Front-end Developer
Diagonal Technologies
- Reimplemented and redesigned the old streaming platform from legacy codebase to the modern tech stack of React and TypeScript.
- Used Web Sockets to develop a chat system and debugged and optimized its performance using React Profiler for extreme load test before launch.
- Integrated Mistplay for the live streaming video player and worked on custom control components over the video player.
- Introduced a new alert system to integrate with OBS for real-time updates during streaming and helped reduce user dependency on third-party widgets for similar tasks.
- Implemented and launched a responsive masonry gallery feature for users to showcase their artwork with keyboard navigation controls.
- Provided support for the old React Native app and worked on building a few features on the app.
- Implemented localization support in more than five languages to help users all around the globe use application in their preferred language.
- Integrated storybook and worked on documenting project components to help new developers for easy knowledge transfer.
- Participated in co-conducting the technical interview of new JavaScript developers hiring and also mentored junior developers involved in different projects.
- Set up a code standardization configuration with ESlint and Prettier for Next.js, TypeScript, and React projects and built and maintained a React and TypeScript project starter kit.
Software Engineer
Arbyte Solutions
- Created a cross-platform mobile app using React Native, handled the deployment of the mobile app, and wrote unit tests using Jest for utility functions.
- Collaborated with product team members and API developers to implement new feature developments.
- Developed a Slack bot to curate articles from the Slack channel and publish them on a static website built using Gatsby.
- Set Up GitLab CI/CD on AWS for a Node.js back-end project.
Front-end Developer
Softhover
- Led the development of a travel web application with custom CMS to manage tours, users, and the content in the application using tech stacks such as React, jQuery, and JavaScript.
- Worked on a cross-platform mobile app from scratch and helped on deploying the mobile app to Google Play and the App Store.
- Improved and optimized the website's overall performance and SEO rankings by reducing the JavaScript bundle size, removing unused CSS, and following standard practices for SEO.
- Set up a Gitlab server in a local network computer to use it as a Git repository for all the projects and helped all the developers to switch workflow from SVN to Git.
Experience
Picarto.tv
https://picarto.tvI worked as a front-end developer leading all the front-end development work using React as the main tech stack. I implemented WebSocket for real-time chat, notification, feed, and alert systems. We made our custom wrapper over the Mist player extending different features for Picarto specifically. Other than that, I have worked on implementing a Kudos feature where users can buy and contribute kudos to streamers to help them earn through streaming. I have also worked on implementing a Masonry gallery for users to showcase their work on the platform.
Air Quality Nepal
https://twitter.com/airqualitynepalI volunteered with Open Knowledge Nepal for the development of this project. I worked as a lead developer on this project. The Twitter bot was written using Node.js. The bot fetches the real-time pollution data using the open API developed by OKNP on certain intervals and publishes info-graphics with some information on Twitter.
Weekly
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Information Technology
Amrit Campus, Tribhuvan University - Kathmandu, Nepal
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, jQuery, REST APIs, CSSinJS, Node.js, Chart.js, jsPDF, Slack API, X (formerly Twitter) API
Tools
Git, GitLab, Jira, Mist, Canvas, Webpack
Languages
HTML5, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, CSS3, GraphQL, TypeScript, C, C++, SCSS
Frameworks
React Native, Redux, Next.js, Bootstrap, Ant Design, Jest
Paradigms
Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
Firebase, Netlify, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Linux, MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Storage
MongoDB, MySQL, Databases, Database Management Systems (DBMS)
Other
Front-end, WebSockets, Styled-components, APIs, Localization, Optimization, Google AdMob, Gatsby, Web Development, Serverless, SVG, Storybook, Data Structures, Algorithms, System Design, Cryptography, Software Engineering, Web Technologies, Website Performance, Charts
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