Dilan Nair
Software Engineer at Open Source Project Community
Iowa, United States
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Top SchoolDilan Nair is a software engineer at Apple with a BS in Computer Science from Northwestern and nine years of hands-on experience across full-stack web and mobile development, developer tools, and secure backend systems. He’s the creator and lead maintainer of Paper, a course-scheduling tool used by thousands at Northwestern, and a principal contributor to CRACO—an influential Create React App configuration layer that he migrated to TypeScript and helped modernize for webpack 5, contributing to its widespread adoption. At Apple he’s worked on developer workflows and now on wireless technologies including eSIM and cellular ecosystems, combining platform-level systems work with developer tooling sensibilities. A longtime builder since running a solo software shop in high school, he pairs production-grade open source stewardship with a track record of shipping reliable, test-backed solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Valedictorian, Valedictorian at Pleasant Valley High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Northwestern UniversityDestrehan, Louisiana, United States, Destrehan, Louisiana, United States at Destrehan High School
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Github Skills (22)
typescript10
webpack10
webpacker10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
javascript9
jestjs9
babeljs8
babel68
babel-core8
configuration-file8
configuration-management8
configurations8
customisation7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
dilanx/craco
Jun 2022 - Dec 2022
Create React App Configuration Override, an easy and comprehensible configuration layer for Create React App.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 16 reviews, 61 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Dilan's contributions primarily focused on transitioning the project to TypeScript. This involved type annotations, updating typings across multiple files, and adapting existing code to leverage TypeScript features. They also set up Jest for testing and made updates to support webpack 5 asset modules. Further modifications included adjusting babel and fixing related configuration issues.
create-react-appreactcraconfigurationcustomization
dilanx/DMSLauncher
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 18 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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