Chandu Tennety
Engineering Manager at Beam Benefits
Ohio, United States
Summary
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SeniorChandu Tennety is an Engineering Manager based in Ohio with 14 years of experience building and shipping Ruby on Rails applications and modern JavaScript front ends. He progressed from hands-on roles—Ruby developer, test engineer, and software artisan—to senior engineer and now manager at Beam Benefits, combining technical depth with team leadership. His craft includes RSpec and test automation practices, accessibility-minded front-end improvements (including keyboard and browser-specific fixes) demonstrated in contributions to the widely used mediaelement media player. Comfortable in both product and enterprise contexts, he has a track record of improving usability and reliability while mentoring engineers through delivery. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic, detail-oriented leader who still prefers to dive into code to solve thorny UX and cross-browser issues.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (7)
html10
accessibility10
javascript10
html5-video10
video-player10
ui-design9
css9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mediaelement/mediaelement
Mar 2016 - Sep 2016
HTML5 <audio> or <video> player with support for MP4, WebM, and MP3 as well as HLS, Dash, YouTube, Facebook, SoundCloud and others with a common HTML5 MediaElement API, enabling a consistent UI in all browsers.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 7 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Chandu primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and accessibility of the media player. Their work included implementing keyboard navigation for the source chooser menu, improving usability by debouncing focus events for Safari, and fixing keyboard behavior in Firefox. They also made updates to the volume controls to constrain the volume range with arrow keys. This work directly improves the user experience of the media player.
mp3youtubevideo-playerhtml5video
tennety/elm-game-of-life
Oct 2015 - Apr 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 50 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 6 months
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