Zain Afzal
Senior Software Engineer at Rippling
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolZain Afzal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Sydney with a decade of experience building accessible, user-focused web applications and developer tools. He cut his teeth at Google before taking senior engineering roles across fast-moving startups and now at Rippling, blending deep front-end craftsmanship with pragmatic systems thinking. Zain has a strong accessibility and UX bent—evident from contributions to GoogleChromeLabs’ text-app where he improved screen-reader support and implemented a dedicated screen reader mode. He also brings teaching and research experience from UNSW, mentoring students in C and low-level concepts and having automated lab workflows with C++ and Arduino. Known for practical problem-solving and a dry sense of humor, he pairs academic rigor with consistent open-source contribution.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Higher School Certificate, High School Higher School Certificate at Macquarie Fields High SchoolUNSW Sydney
English, Urdu
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Github Skills (7)
accessibility10
javascript10
text-editor10
codemirror10
html9
chromeos8
css8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChromeLabs/text-app
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
A text editor for ChromeOS and Chrome
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 55 commits, 42 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Zain primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and user experience of the text editor. They improved screen reader support by implementing a custom `devToolsAccessibleTextArea` class and modifying the editor's input handling. The user also addressed code quality by addressing pull request comments and fixed a sizing issue related to the textarea. Furthermore, a "screen reader mode" was added, which replaced CodeMirror with a standard textarea.
chromechromeostext-editor
zainafzal08/LeonBot
Jan 2018 - Apr 2021
A friendly bot to manage dnd shopping!
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
dndbotdiscord-botnodejsshopping
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