Barath Kannan
Software Engineer at IMC Trading
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBarath Kannan is a software engineer with 12 years' experience in high-performance C++ and systems programming, currently working at IMC Trading in Sydney. He has a strong background in maritime and trading systems from roles at Thales, SONARTECH ATLAS and a proprietary trading firm, bringing domain-driven, low-latency engineering to complex real-world problems. An active contributor to the widely used microsoft/vcpkg project, he implemented robust Qt5 support, improved flaky build resilience and fixed packaging/pathing issues—demonstrating pragmatic full-stack C++ tooling skills. Barath pairs an advanced Computer Science degree from the University of Sydney with a talent for stabilizing build systems and dependency resolution, an often-overlooked but critical capability for reliable large-scale C++ projects.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyNorth Sydney Boys High School
Github Skills (11)
package-manager-tool10
vcpkg10
c-language10
package-manager10
lib10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
packager10
package10
cmake9
windows9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vcpkg
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
C++ Library Manager for Windows, Linux, and MacOS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Barath's contributions primarily involve developing and integrating Qt5 libraries within the vcpkg project. They implemented support for the Qt5 framework, focusing on building, installing, and packaging the libraries. The user addressed build issues, including static and dynamic linkage, and made improvements to the build process by adding a repeating build strategy for flaky builds and patching the installation process. They also added tools to resolve dependency issues, and correct pathing in the resulting cmake files.
c-plus-plussetuptoolspackage-managermacoscplusplus
Barath-Kannan/flite
Oct 2016 - May 2020
Contributions:15 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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