Arul Kumaran
Chief Technology Officer at Luracast
Singapore
Summary
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RockstarArul Kumaran is a veteran technology leader and CTO based in Singapore with 15+ years delivering API-first platforms, SaaS products, and developer tools. He founded Luracast and built Restler, a pragmatic PHP API framework used by thousands, and currently authors MCP (Model Context Protocol) work including the NCP router that dramatically reduces AI agent token and cost waste. Arul blends hands-on engineering—from C/C++ device work to web back ends and Adobe-era tooling—with product instincts that produced slide and workflow SaaS prototypes. A former Adobe Community Champion and published author, he pairs deep practical experience in integrations and scalable APIs with a knack for shipping focused developer utilities. Notably, he moves quickly from idea to prototype (NCP in two weeks) and is actively consulting and collaborating to help unknown builders gain traction.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kannada, Tamil, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
php10
api10
validation10
apidoc10
validations10
documentation8
url-routing6
account-management6
ssl6
restler6
rest6
explode6
database6
account-manager6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Luracast/Restler
Apr 2011 - Jan 2023
Zero-boilerplate REST API framework for PHP 8+. Auto-generates routes, docs, validation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1637 commits, 57 PRs, 250 pushes in 11 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Arul primarily focused on modifying the Restler framework to support new features, including the ability to use custom classes as parameters, adding validation for various data types, and providing better support for handling request data. They also addressed bugs related to routing, data type handling, and the generation of documentation. Furthermore, the user implemented new classes for file uploads and enhanced error handling.
phprestrest-apirestlerphpdoc-comments
Luracast/Restler-API-Explorer
Aug 2012 - Aug 2015
Restler API Explorer is a tweaked version of Swagger UI, a dependency-free collection of HTML, Javascript, and CSS assets that dynamically generate beautiful documentation from a Swagger-compliant API.
Contributions:45 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years
cssdependency-freejavascriptswaggerswagger-ui
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