Anantha Kumaran
Principal Software Engineer at Userflow
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolAnantha Kumaran is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building high-throughput API backends, complex web frontends, and resilient job processing systems from Bengaluru. He has progressed through senior engineering and lead roles at companies like GoTo Group and Scripbox and now drives architecture and delivery at Userflow. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, he combines hands-on backend work—demonstrated by contributions to the Exq Elixir job-processing library—with product-focused projects like Paisa, a personal finance manager that integrates ledger parsing and SQLite persistence. Known for improving observability and configurability in distributed worker systems, he balances deep technical refactors with practical developer ergonomics. He holds a BE in Computer Science and often surfaces implementation details that improve maintainability and debuggability across teams.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 8.1/10, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, 8.1/10 at Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences
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Github Skills (21)
sqlite10
redis10
elixir10
command-line-interface10
go10
command-line10
job-queue10
financial9
sidekiq9
finance9
test-unit8
exunit8
unit-testing8
compression6
html6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ananthakumaran/paisa
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 182 commits, 10 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Anantha primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the personal finance manager, implementing features related to persisting and retrieving posting information. They integrated the "ledger" command-line tool for parsing transaction data, storing the parsed data in a SQLite database. The user also added command-line interfaces for syncing journal data and searching mutual fund information. Furthermore, the user has begun creating a user interface.
accountingwebguiledgerfinancetax
akira/exq
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Job processing library for Elixir - compatible with Resque / Sidekiq
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 168 commits in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Anantha contributed to the Exq Elixir library by enhancing its core functionality and maintainability. They refactored the code to improve worker process management by altering the startup sequence and adding support for worker-specific retry counts. Furthermore, the user added essential features to improve debugging capabilities by including job results and exception details in the middleware pipeline. They also implemented configuration flexibility for backoff time calculations, demonstrating attention to the library's robustness and configurability.
redisresqueelixirjob-queuesidekiq
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