Rajeesh Nambiar
Associate
Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolRajeesh Nambiar is an experienced software engineer with 17 years in development and enhancement of enterprise applications, currently working as an Associate at TIAA. He brings a strong background in content management systems and web technologies from roles at Capgemini and Oracle, with hands-on experience in Java, PHP, JavaScript, CSS, Drupal, Oracle UCM and WCS. Rajeesh has a practical open-source footprint, contributing backend improvements and new features to notable projects like SILE typesetter and KDE Plasma, demonstrating attention to code reuse, internationalization, and platform porting. His contributions include adding UTF-8 conversion utilities, configurable hyphenation in SILE, and refactoring KDE touchpad modules to KF5 while resolving driver and initialization bugs. Based in Maharashtra, India, he pairs deep debugging and refactoring skills with a track record of shipping maintainable enhancements across both proprietary and open-source codebases.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Information Technology at LDRP-Institute Of Technology & Research
English, Hindi, Gujarati, Malayalam
Github Skills (12)
lua10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
typesetting10
qt10
pdf9
pdf-generation8
dbus8
tex7
publish7
x117
linux6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
KDE/plasma-desktop
Sep 2014 - Mar 2016
Plasma for the Desktop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Rajeesh primarily focused on porting and refactoring the Touchpad KCM (KDE Control Module) to KF5 (KDE Frameworks 5). Their contributions involved modifying the source code, particularly in `kcm-touchpad` and related files, to adapt to the new framework. The user also addressed bug fixes, including initialization of the backend, Synaptics driver issues, and making non-blocking calls to depending services, showcasing their debugging and problem-solving abilities within the codebase. These changes likely involved updating dependencies and ensuring compatibility with newer versions of KDE libraries and components.
electronlinuxc-plus-pluschromeosdesktop
sile-typesetter/sile
May 2016 - May 2016
The SILE Typesetter — Simon’s Improved Layout Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rajeesh focused on enhancing the SILE typesetting engine by introducing new functionalities and parameters. They added a function for converting Unicode codepoints to UTF-8 characters and integrated this function into existing code, specifically within the `unichar` and `font` modules, to avoid code duplication. The user also added a `hyphenchar` parameter to the font settings, enabling the use of custom hyphenation characters, and updated the hyphenator to utilize this new feature. Moreover, the user added documentation and tests related to the new features.
luapublishingpdfsiletypesetting
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