Ashish Jain
Head Of Engineering at Mermaid
Stockholm County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAshish Jain is a Head of Engineering based in Stockholm with six years of professional experience advancing from software engineer to senior technical leadership, primarily at Nagarro and now leading engineering at Mermaid. He combines hands-on full-stack development—demonstrated by contributions to the well-known open-source mermaid-js project improving flowchart parsing, CSS class support, and Unicode handling—with a strong background in eCommerce platforms like SAP Hybris. Ashish is pragmatic and curious, favoring hands-on experimentation and continuous learning while scaling teams and systems. Outside work he seeks creative outlets and small adventures in travel, bikes and graffiti art, which inform a collaborative, design-minded approach to engineering.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Science with Bio-tech, A+, High School, Science with Bio-tech, A+ at Delhi Public School, GurgaonBachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, A, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, A at Institute Of Technology And Management
Hindi, English, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
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mermaid10
jestjs10
jtest10
software-quality9
javascript9
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css9
d3js8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mermaid-js/mermaid
Jul 2019 - Jan 2023
Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 125 reviews, 322 commits in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashish implemented features in the mermaid-js/mermaid repository, focusing on enhancements for the flowchart diagrams. Their work included updating the JISON for the flow diagram to allow class declarations in vertex declarations, adding support for custom CSS classes, and handling unicode characters within HTML labels. They also added test cases to ensure the proper rendering of the new functionalities and to address specific edge cases like nested subgraphs, and edge style.
markdownsequence-diagramflowchartjavascripttypescript
Mermaid-Chart/confluence-mermaid-chart-plugin-v2
Feb 2024 - Jul 2025
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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