Palanikannan M
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolPalanikannan M is a software engineer with 5 years of full‑stack experience, currently leading knowledge base development at Plane and previously maintaining Plane as an OSS contributor. He ships product-facing features across frontend, backend, and infrastructure—recent work includes editor enhancements, drag-and-drop, table and code block support, and image handling for the open-source Plane project (a modern alternative to JIRA/Linear/Asana). A Google Summer of Code contributor and mentor (Rocket.Chat) and former Junior Developer Evangelist at Merico, he bridges developer advocacy and hands-on engineering. Based in Hyderabad, he combines strong academic foundations from VIT with a knack for improving developer UX in collaborative tools, and is quietly passionate about philanthropy through open source.
5 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at Vellore Institute of TechnologyPace Junior Science College
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Github Skills (21)
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
bug-tracker9
javascript9
nextjs9
issue-tracking9
bugtracking9
docker8
rest-api8
python8
dockers8
postgresql8
django7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
makeplane/plane
Jun 2023 - Feb 2026
🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:97 reviews, 160 PRs, 691 pushes in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Palanikannan primarily contributed to the frontend, backend, and infrastructure of the Plane project. Their work included implementing features such as image resizing and handling, improving the user interface and interaction of the editor, implementing drag-and-drop functionality, fixing various issues with the editor, adding table support, and enhancing the handling of code blocks. The user also addressed issues related to the editor's integration in different contexts like the issue peek overview and page details.
jiradjangodockerkanbanproject-management
Palanikannan1437/incubator-devlake
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Apache DevLake is an open-source dev data platform to ingest, analyze, and visualize the fragmented data from DevOps tools，which can distill insights to improve engineering productivity.
Contributions:51 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
visualizeengineeringdata-platformdata-pipelinesengineering-productivity
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