Navilan N
CEO & Founder at koodup
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolNavilan N is a founder and software leader with 17 years of experience building learning-first products and developer tools from Chennai, India. As CEO of koodup and founder of Puthir, he has translated classroom-style curriculum design into interactive environments that help children—and surprisingly, adults and teams—fall in love with learning. A hands-on programmer and storyteller, he contributed full-stack code to the hyde static site generator, working on filesystem logic, Jinja2-based templating, plugins and core model loading. His background in computer science and game design informs a playful, systems-oriented approach to product and curriculum architecture. Navilan is dedicating the 2020s to mainstreaming these pedagogical methods, pairing poetic storytelling with engineering rigor to make learning more engaging and scalable.
17 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Misrimal Navajee Munoth Jain Engineering CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at N.S.N Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Github Skills (11)
filesystem10
template-engine10
file-operations10
python10
fileio10
jinja210
syntax-highlighting9
highlighter9
plugin-development9
syntax-highlighter9
metadata-management8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hyde/hyde
Dec 2010 - Mar 2016
A Python Static Website Generator (See https://duct-ui.org from the author).
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:414 commits, 37 PRs, 30 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Navilan was actively involved in this static website generator project, with contributions spanning the core components. They worked on creating and refining file system functionalities using Python, developing templating engines based on Jinja2, and implementing plugins for tasks like code highlighting, and auto extending. Additionally, the user contributed to the underlying model, including configuration and content loading, indicating a full-stack approach to building this project.
pythonstatic-site-generatorblog-engine
gitbot/gitbot
Dec 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:69 commits in 8 months
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