Arooran Thanabalasingam
Software Engineer at University of Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolArooran Thanabalasingam is a Zurich-based software engineer with nine years of full-stack web development experience, currently supporting research IT at the University of Zurich. He blends practical product-focused engineering with attention to code quality and developer experience, exemplified by contributions to the high-profile microsoft/TypeScript repo that improved function conversion tooling and test coverage. His background spans consultancy and security-minded roles at ELCA and Compass Security, plus identity and access management in banking, giving him a balanced perspective on reliability and compliance. Arooran holds a computer science degree from HSR Rapperswil and likes to bring clarity to complex codebases — a trait hinted at by his GitHub motto, "Take the red pill."
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer science, Bachelor, Computer science at HSR Hochschule für Technik RapperswilWMI, WMI at Kantonsschule Sargans
English, German
Github Skills (8)
typescript10
javascript10
refactoring10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
unit-testing9
language-design8
typechecker7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/TypeScript
Oct 2018 - May 2020
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript that compiles to clean JavaScript output.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:77 commits, 2 PRs, 17 comments in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Arooran primarily contributed to the refactoring of TypeScript code related to converting arrow functions and function expressions. Their work included implementing functionality for converting between arrow functions, anonymous functions, and named functions. They also added unit tests to verify the availability and behavior of these conversions, enhancing the code's test coverage. These changes indicate a focus on improving code readability, maintainability, and developer experience within the TypeScript language itself.
typecheckerjavascriptcleantype-checksuperset
inseri-swiss/inseri-core-wp
Jul 2022 - Mar 2025
inseri.swiss - connecting data repositories, research methods, and researchers
Contributions:30 reviews, 196 PRs, 701 pushes in 2 years 7 months
repositoriesdataresearch-methodsresearchersswiss
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