Karthik Thayyil
Senior Web Engineer at 10up
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolKarthik Thayyil is a Senior Web Engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance web platforms and a deep focus on WordPress core and ecosystem performance. He has delivered scalable backend systems for companies ranging from Google and T-Mobile partners to Byju's and Future Group, and currently drives web engineering at 10up from Dublin while completing an MSc in Artificial Intelligence. Karthik has led teams and end-to-end systems—shipping an LMS that supported 15,000+ teachers concurrently and architecting microservice backends for high-frequency eSports tournaments—while repeatedly optimizing for performance and automation. A core WordPress contributor and prolific plugin author, he blends pragmatic engineering with analytics-driven decision making and a constant appetite for learning in data and AI. Notably, he has a track record of rapid, production-ready prototyping (e.g., a fully customized LearnDash pilot in four days) and building migration and automation tooling that shrinks stakeholder communication and manual work.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan’s College of Engineering and Visual Arts (VPPCOEVA)Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Artificial Intelligence at Dublin City UniversitySSC, SSC at Fatima High School, Vidyavihar
Github Skills (57)
deno10
javascript10
perfect10
wordpress10
drag10
typescript10
branches10
subversion10
gutenberg10
wordpress-plugin10
skeleton10
rust10
ads10
trac10
grapesjs9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
10up/wordpress-develop
Feb 2023 - Mar 2023
WordPress Develop, Git-ified. Synced from git://develop.git.wordpress.org/, including branches and tags! This repository is just a mirror of the WordPress subversion repository. Please include a link to a pre-existing ticket on https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ with every pull request.
Contributions:44 reviews, 167 commits, 25 PRs in 1 month
branchesversion-controlsubversionwordpresstrac
deno-module/download
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Deno fetch api based module to download file from a URL.
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 20 PRs in 5 months
apideno-deploydenofetchtypescript
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