Nagappan Alagappan
Staff 2 Engineer at VMware
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolNagappan Alagappan is a Staff 2 Engineer in Mountain View with 19 years of experience specializing in Linux desktop GUI application testing and Python-driven automation. He has long-standing involvement with cross-platform GUI testing (notably the LDTP project used across major Linux distributions and multiple OSes) and has led mobile UI automation for iOS and Android at VMware. His career spans senior engineering roles at VMware and earlier systems and consulting work, blending hands-on tooling development with platform portability expertise. Holding an MS in Engineering Management and Leadership from Santa Clara University, he couples technical craftsmanship with team and delivery focus. Less obvious: he has sustained open-source stewardship of desktop testing infrastructure that quietly underpins UI quality across diverse Unix-like systems.
19 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MCA, Computer Science, MCA, Computer Science at Annamalai UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Engineering Management and Leadership, Master of Science (MS), Engineering Management and Leadership at Santa Clara UniversityBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Madurai Kamaraj UniversityBSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Arumugam Pillai Seethai Ammal
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Github Skills (41)
ios10
garbage-collector10
ecma10
testing10
xamarin10
dotnet10
mono10
android10
csharp10
jit10
cli10
desktop9
linux9
windows9
macos8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ldtp/ldtp2
Aug 2010 - Feb 2020
Linux Desktop Testing Project
Contributions:326 commits, 15 PRs, 15 pushes in 9 years 7 months
testinglinuxdesktop-testinglinux-desktopdesktop
ldtp/cobra
Apr 2012 - Oct 2019
Windows version of Linux Desktop Testing Project
Contributions:288 commits, 18 PRs, 18 pushes in 7 years 7 months
windowstestinglinuxdesktop-testinglinux-desktop
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