Tapas Mahanta

Developer Tooling & Platform Engineer Building production systems with React, TypeScript, Node.js, and Python. Focused on API contracts, DX, testing, and OSS. Writing about what breaks in real-world

Bangalore, India Joined on Jul 25, 2020

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Self-taught engineer with production experience

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Frontend Engineer focused on scalable React.js & Node.js architecture, exploring Data & AI.

TypeScript, JavaScript, React, React Native, Node.js, Python, XState, API design, Playwright (E2E), CI/CD, developer tooling.

Distributed systems fundamentals: MCP servers, circuit breakers, retries & timeouts, API reliability patterns, and applying these in developer tooling.

Working on developer tooling and a production-grade app — applying state machines, API contracts, reliability patterns, and testing-first architecture with Playwright.

OSS collaboration, platform & developer tooling design, API contracts, reliability patterns (circuit breakers, retries), Backstage plugins, and architecture reviews.

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