Netanel Basal
Engineering Manager at Datorama Inc.
Israel, United States
Summary
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RockstarNetanel Basal is a seasoned Frontend Tech Lead with 10 years of experience, based in Israel, and co-founder of HotJS and the ngneat organization. He is the creator and maintainer of popular Angular-focused tooling such as Akita, Spectator and Transloco, and his open-source work spans fake-data generation (falso), RxJS lifecycle management (until-destroy) and a reactive store (elf). Netanel blends hands-on full‑stack development with leadership—often authoring initial commits and core refactors that improve developer ergonomics, testing, and state management. A blogger, husband and father, he brings a pragmatic, DX-first mindset to building libraries and teams that scale.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (23)
data-generation10
javascript10
typescript310
ngrx10
typescript10
typescript210
rxjs10
dom-manipulation10
javascripts10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
state-management10
typescripts10
jest-js10
angular10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ngneat/falso
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
All the Fake Data for All Your Real Needs 🙂
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:178 reviews, 443 commits, 169 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Netanel primarily contributed to the development of the `falso` library, which provides fake data generation capabilities. Their initial commit introduced the project. Subsequently, the user added new features by implementing functions to generate email addresses, full names, and various other types of data. They refactored the code, adding support for different data formats, including RGB and semantic versioning. The user also added documentation and tests for the added functionality.
data-analysispythondatadata-sciencedummy-data
ngneat/spectator
Sep 2017 - Jan 2023
🦊 🚀 A Powerful Tool to Simplify Your Angular Tests
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 63 reviews, 509 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Netanel's commits primarily focused on contributing to an Angular testing library. The changes involve modifications to the core testing utilities, including the addition of new features such as support for DOM selectors, mouse event helpers, and the ability to query elements by directive. The user's contributions included refactoring internal methods and improving type inference within the library. The main focus of the commits was on expanding the library's functionality to support a wider array of testing scenarios within the Angular ecosystem.
testingcleantest-runnerunittestangular
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