Rahul Somasunderam
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRahul Somasunderam is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with 13 years building reliable, user-focused software at scale, currently contributing at Netflix. He blends mobile iOS craftsmanship—demonstrated by significant enhancements to an open-source drawing component’s text tooling—with build and release automation expertise shown in improvements to a popular Gradle Xcode plugin. Comfortable across product-facing UI and behind-the-scenes infrastructure, he has improved text editing UX, undo/redo workflows, CocoaPods integration, and test/reporting pipelines. Rahul’s work reflects a practical balance of polishing developer tooling and shipping polished client experiences. Colleagues value his pragmatic problem-solving and attention to edge-case behavior that improves long-term maintainability. He brings strong cross-functional collaboration to complex codebases in both consumer and tooling domains.
13 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
textkit10
objective-c10
ios10
user-interface10
xcode10
coregraphics10
build-automation10
swift10
uikit10
gradlew10
cocoapods10
gradle10
testing9
ux-design9
ui-design9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
openbakery/gradle-xcodePlugin
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
gradle plugin for building Xcode Projects for iOS, watchOS, macOS or tvOS
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily contributed to the build and testing infrastructure of the Xcode plugin. Their work included implementing Cocoapods integration, adding support for CPD reports, and improving the test output formatting and reporting. They also addressed merge conflicts and incorporated updates from the master branch. The user's changes focus on enhancing the plugin's build process, code analysis, and test results.
gradletvosswiftiosmacos
acerbetti/ACEDrawingView
May 2014 - May 2014
An open source iOS component to create a drawing app
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Rahul primarily focused on enhancing the text tool functionality within the iOS drawing application. They implemented features like text input using a `UITextView`, text resizing, and integration of attributed text for styling. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to undo/redo operations, ensuring proper functionality within the text tool's workflow, and general editing states. These contributions significantly improved the text editing experience and overall usability of the drawing app.
swiftiosios-sourcedrawing-appdrawing
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