Praveen Puglia
Staff Engineer at smallcase
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolPraveen Puglia is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building and architecting front-end systems, currently leading engineering at smallcase in Hyderabad. He progressed from hands-on development roles to senior leadership positions, including Frontend Architect and Senior Director of Engineering, bringing both delivery focus and architectural vision. Praveen has a knack for improving developer experience and UX, demonstrated by contributions to the widely used microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice where he added modern CSS feature support and improved autocompletion. Comfortable shipping at scale across startups and enterprise environments, he blends practical implementation skills with team coaching and cross-functional collaboration. Based in Hyderabad with a B.Tech. in Computer Science, he favors pragmatic solutions that prioritize accuracy and compatibility—reflecting his tongue-in-cheek GitHub bio, "What's unimportant is paramount!"
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Higher Secondary Pure Science, Higher Secondary Pure Science at Sainthia High SchoolBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at West Bengal University of Technology, Kolkata
English, Bengali, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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apache
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xampp
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Github Skills (18)
xampp10
css10
apache10
front-end-development10
javascript9
php9
html9
inline-styles6
wamp-server6
vue6
jquery6
ajax6
css-transforms6
twitter-bootstrap6
bootstrap6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/vscode-css-languageservice
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
CSS, LESS & SCSS language service extracted from VSCode to be reused, e.g in the Monaco editor.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Praveen primarily contributed to the CSS language service, focusing on enhancing its capabilities and browser compatibility. They added support for new CSS features, including grid-row-start and caret-color. Furthermore, the user updated the service to include features like adding 4 and 8 character hex colors and adding system font stack to the font-family autocomplete list. These changes improve the service's accuracy and provide better code suggestions.
monacocss-variablesvscodecssvscode-extension
praveenpuglia/dotfiles
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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