Arm Suwarnaratana
Chief Software Janitor at DocUnlock
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorArm Suwarnaratana is a pragmatic engineering leader and tinkerer with 14 years building reliable back-end systems, APIs, and IoT integrations from Austin. Currently serving as Chief Software Janitor at DocUnlock after senior engineering and principal roles at Khoros and Visa, he excels at rescuing messy codebases, designing elegant RESTful APIs, and shipping pragmatic solutions under pressure. He brought core functionality and later dimming/error handling to a notable open-source project that emulates the Philips Hue API for home automation, demonstrating real-world IoT and API interoperability expertise. Colleagues know him as a hands-on mentor, technical writer, and on-call firefighter who balances craftsmanship with delivery. He prefers simple, well-documented systems and often externalizes configuration and refactors for long-term maintainability. Based in Austin, he combines enterprise-scale experience with hobbyist curiosity to bridge product needs and developer ergonomics.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
apidoc10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
spring-boot10
home-automation9
http9
elasticsearch6
sinatra6
ruby6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
armzilla/amazon-echo-ha-bridge
Apr 2015 - Feb 2020
emulates philips hue api to other home automation gateways
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 57 commits, 20 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Arm primarily contributed to the back-end of the "amazon-echo-ha-bridge" project, which emulates a Philips Hue API. Their initial commit introduced core functionality, with a focus on API endpoints and data handling. They refactored package names and externalized configurations. Further contributions included adding dimming support and handling errors, demonstrating an understanding of API design, and interaction with external services.
apihue-apiemulateshuehome-automation
armzilla/equilistings
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:7 pushes in 25 days
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