Nisanthan Nanthakumar
Software Engineer at Found
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNisanthan Nanthakumar is a San Francisco–based Software Engineer with a decade of experience building full‑stack JavaScript applications, specializing in React and Node.js. He has shipped production features and bug fixes at scale as a Senior Software Engineer at Sentry, contributing notable back-end work to a widely used open-source error‑tracking platform and improving its API docs and integrations. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs hands‑on TypeScript, Express, MongoDB and REST API skills with practical DevOps-minded database migrations and integration work (including Microsoft Teams and Slack). With a math and economics background from the University of Toronto and finance certifications, he brings analytical rigor and product-minded thinking to engineering problems. Currently at Found, he combines startup agility with a history of improving developer tooling and documentation for large open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Canadian Securities Course Finance General, Canadian Securities Course Finance General at Canadian Securities InstituteHonors Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Economics, Honors Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Mathematics and Economics at University of TorontoLLQP Life Accident & Sickness Insurance, LLQP Life Accident & Sickness Insurance at Financial Services Commission of Ontario
Github Skills (18)
database-migrations10
sentry10
python10
apidoc10
django10
typescript10
api10
typescript-types10
database-migration10
typescripts10
openapi10
gatsby10
react10
documentation10
postgresql9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
getsentry/sentry
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Developer-first error tracking and performance monitoring
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:485 reviews, 352 commits, 447 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Nisanthan primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Sentry project. They fixed a bug in the digest system related to Slack notifications and implemented a new feature to add a filter query parameter for Sentry apps. They also added database migrations for auto-assignment and the Microsoft Teams integration, showing involvement in database management and integration with other platforms. These commits highlight their focus on bug fixing, feature implementation, and database modifications.
monitorpythonsentrydjangoerror-monitoring
getsentry/sentry-docs
Jul 2020 - Mar 2022
Sentry's documentation (and tools to build it)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 reviews, 47 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Nisanthan focused on enhancing the API documentation within the Sentry documentation repository. They implemented new features like showing OpenAPI schema responses and improving the cURL display. They also migrated the documentation from /development-api/* into /api/* routes, and updated styles and links within the documentation. Furthermore, the user converted files to typescript, fixed API docs column widths, and improved the markdown parsing.
gatsbysentry-documentationgatsbyjssentrytag-production
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