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Principal Software Engineer

Article in How We Build

How We Achieved 75% Faster Builds by Removing Barrel Files

Removing JavaScript barrel files from our Jira frontend codebase led to a 75% reduction in build times, with significantly faster TypeScript highlighting and unit testing. This large-scale automated change also improved CI efficiency and made code navigation much clearer for developers.

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