Summary
Prasana Kannan is a Senior UX Engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, maintainable front-end systems and end-to-end web products for companies from PayPal and Symantec to Google. He specializes in React, TypeScript, design systems and browser extensions, and has led architectural transformations—most notably modernizing Norton Password Manager and shipping cross-product design systems that scale to millions of users. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs frontend performance and web-vitals expertise with backend Node.js services and pragmatic CI/CD practices. He thrives in startup and enterprise settings alike, taking full ownership of projects from requirements through monitoring and feedback. An active open-source maintainer, he has also published tooling to modernize browser extension workflows (including a Safari app extension project) that reflects his focus on reusable, cross-platform solutions.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Computer technology, Diploma Computer technology at Central Polytechnic College
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil