Ashish Puliyel
Director Of Engineering at The Guardian
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAshish Puliyel is a Director of Engineering with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and mobile SaaS products, currently leading engineering at The Guardian. He combines a strong design and UX sensibility with deep full‑stack technical expertise (JS/Node/React, cloud/PaaS, and multiple backend languages) to deliver secure, high‑traffic systems used by brands like eBay and DBS Bank. Ashish has repeatedly grown and led distributed, international teams, embedding modern engineering practices—CI/CD, TDD, devops—and pragmatically applying agile and lean product discovery. He brings product ownership chops, using data and A/B testing to balance technical debt against revenue-driving features, and has specific experience building privacy- and security-conscious systems for banking and healthcare. An active contributor to notable projects like the Guardian’s frontend, he’s comfortable moving between hands-on front-end work and strategic architectural decisions.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
The British SchoolSchool of Computing, School of Computing at National University of Singapore
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
front-end-development10
scala9
html8
css7
e-mail6
socket-io6
ios6
websocket6
nodejs6
amazon-web-services6
webkit6
ipad6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
guardian/frontend
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
The Guardian DotCom.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:81 reviews, 24 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashish's commits primarily involve modifications to front-end components and commercial-related modules within the Guardian DotCom repository. They updated JavaScript files related to Comscore integration, modified Scala templates for banner advertisements and the commercial tools admin page, and removed a link from the footer. The changes reflect adjustments to advertising configurations, UI updates, and link modifications, demonstrating a focus on the user interface and commercial features.
productionguardian
ashishpuliyel/niapuliyel
Jan 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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