Raja Sekar
Senior Software Engineer at Automattic
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRaja Sekar is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chennai with 10 years of experience building full-stack applications, specializing in JavaScript and Go. Currently at Automattic, he brings production-grade front-end expertise informed by prior senior roles at Comcast and Altimetrik and an early engineering foundation from Infosys. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects like WooCommerce, where his React-driven UI enhancements improved marketplace product cards, banners, and overall UX. Comfortable across modern stacks—from Backbone/jQuery-era apps to contemporary React and Go services—he excels at translating design needs into polished, user-facing features. Known for pragmatic problem solving and a strong product sensibility, he balances shipping fast with maintaining clean, maintainable front-end code.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Computer Science, Anna University, Computer Science at KCG College of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (6)
woocommerce10
javascript10
react10
ecommerce9
html9
css9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
woocommerce/woocommerce
May 2024 - Feb 2025
A customizable, open-source ecommerce platform built on WordPress. Build any commerce solution you can imagine.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 18 PRs, 52 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Raja primarily contributed to the front-end components of the WooCommerce Marketplace, specifically focusing on UI updates and feature implementations. They implemented changes to the product card, adding features like sale price display and the "Installed" label. The user also updated the header title and incorporated a banner carousel, enhancing the user interface and overall user experience within the marketplace. Their work involved modifying existing components and creating new ones using React and related technologies.
ecommercecommercewordpressautomatticphp
raja651/RelationalToDocumentDatabase
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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