I am a Front-end Architect from Chennai, India. I work for a company called Freshworks as a Senior Staff Engineer where we build awesome products for the CRM industry.
I love books, art, music and movies. I used to be a Graphic Designer and Systems Programmer once.
I love programming languages like Javascript, Ruby, Haskell and Lisp. I wholeheartedly embrace Functional Programming, Code clarity, Performance, Accessibility and Internationalization.
I am passionate about Open Source Software and Contributions, recently, I have been writing tools in JS
I write code in Ember.js and React.js
My favorite editors are Emacs and Vim (in order of preference)
Blog
I have a personal blog called hangaroundtheweb.com where I occasionally pen my thoughts on web developement, leadership and programming languages.Speaking
I love to speak and participate in conferences, meetups and workshops.- Svelte and the Paradox of Choice | Slides
- CSS through the ages | Slides
- Building Bridges to the DOM with Modifiers (Ember.js Chennai Meetup 2021) | Slides
- A Super Tiny, Framework Agnostic CSS-in-JS ( Javascript and Friends Oct 21, 2020 ) | Slides
- A Super Tiny, Framework Agnostic CSS-in-JS ( ESNEXT 2020 ) | Slides
- Codemods: A Paradigm Shift in migrating large codebases in JSFoo Pune 2020 | Slides
- The Art of Crafting Codemods in Javascript Bangkok | Slides
- The Art of Crafting Codemods | Slides
- ASTs & Ember.js | Slides
- The OSS Bazaar | Slides
- Keep Calm and Do Large-scale Refactorings | Slides
- Micro Frontends | Slides
Books
I love reading books all the day. I do have a mini Library in home. I love Technology, Psychology and Non-Fiction genres.
These are some of the life-changing books I have read, which altered my perception and outlook.
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
- The Monk who sold his Ferarri by Robin Sharma
- Pragmatic Learning and Thinking by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
- Deep Work by Cal Newport
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- The Mythical Man Month by Fred Brooks
- The Elements of Programming Style by Brian Kernighan
- Mindset by Carol S Dweck
- Grit by Angle Duckworth
- Peopleware by Tom DeMarco
- Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb
- The Craftsman by Richard Sennett