Poornima Nayar is a software engineer with nine years’ experience building and architecting web applications, currently at Particular Software and freelancing through KVTechs. She has deep Umbraco expertise—contributing front-end UI improvements and back-end fixes to the popular open-source Umbraco CMS and community site—which underscores a practical focus on user experience and reliability. Her background spans senior and leadership roles across agencies and product teams, including a stint as CTO, where she balanced hands-on development with technical strategy. Poornima is comfortable across the stack, shipping UI polish, backend logic and integrations under tight timelines, and has a track record of quickly delivering localisation and production fixes. Based in Slough, she combines engineering discipline from larger organisations with the agility of freelance consulting, often surfacing small UX details (like input maxlength attributes) that improve real user workflows.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology Electrical & Electronics, Bachelor of Technology Electrical & Electronics at Rajiv gandhi Institute of technology, Kerala
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:34 reviews, 140 commits, 209 PRs in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Poornima primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Umbraco CMS, focusing on UI enhancements and bug fixes. Their work involved modifying existing components, styles, and layouts, as seen in the changes to LESS files and HTML templates. They also implemented features like maxlength attributes for input fields and the use of new UI components, indicating a focus on improving the user interface and experience.
Contributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Poornima primarily contributed to the user interface and backend logic of the Umbraco CMS community site. Their work included modifying the display of user information, such as adding badges and changing the display of email addresses. They also worked on backend tasks like adding null checks for contributed packages and modifying Hangfire jobs. Furthermore, they corrected broken links and added new features, like opening links in new windows.
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