Praveen Selva
Product Support Engineer at Automattic
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPraveen Selva is a full-stack product support engineer with 11 years of experience building and supporting scalable web products, currently at Automattic in Vancouver. He combines deep expertise in React, TypeScript, PHP, and WordPress with a strong background in middleware and operations from roles at IBM, Fidelity, and HP, enabling him to bridge backend reliability with polished front-end experiences. At Automattic he contributed to the high-profile wp-calypso codebase, improving accessibility, mobile layouts, and checkout flows for WordPress.com. A founder of a WordPress services shop, he has end-to-end product sensibilities—prototyping, client negotiation, and handover—paired with disciplined testing and performance focus. Known for shipping complex billing and payment systems, he brings a practical, systems-oriented mindset to UX-driven development.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
CCFSA, Social Action and Community Development, CCFSA, Social Action and Community Development at FUNDAECB.Tech, Information Technology, B.Tech, Information Technology at Madurai Kamaraj University
English, Tamil, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
testing-library10
front-end-development10
react10
jsx9
html9
accessibility9
javascript8
css8
wordpress7
redux6
s65
nodejs5
jscript5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:124 reviews, 25 commits, 56 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Praveen primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress.com Calypso project. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the overall user experience. Key contributions include fixing capitalization issues, adding accessibility features, and refactoring components to use React Testing Library for testing. The user also addressed issues related to mobile web layouts and checkout processes.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
spraveenitpro/100DaysofCode
May 2020 - Jun 2021
Documenting the 100 days of writing code and creating applications for learning purposes
Contributions:278 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
react
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