Rakesh Arunachalam
Senior Developer at thoughtbot
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRakesh Arunachalam is a Senior Developer based in London with nine years’ experience specializing in frontend JavaScript and React Native for mobile and web. He has driven end-to-end delivery of consumer and banking apps—owning feature development, charting integrations, DevOps build/release pipelines, and app store publishing across iOS and Android. His background spans enterprise ERP mobility at Oracle and Capgemini to product-focused roles at Connido and Danske Bank, giving him a strong mix of domain knowledge in Procure-to-Pay and practical UX-focused engineering. At thoughtbot he continues to apply rapid, test-driven delivery and cross-team collaboration to ship polished mobile experiences. Notably, he pairs hands-on React Native expertise with experience managing release channels and analytics-driven features, making him effective at closing the loop from instrumentation to user-facing improvements.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Petit SeminaireBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Warangal
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada
Github Skills (77)
mobile-development10
google-maps10
react-native-expo10
app-framework10
shell10
apple-pay10
cross-platform10
android10
mobile10
macos10
ios10
react-native10
frontend10
react10
rubygems9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rakeshpetit/rak-astro-blog
Nov 2023 - Feb 2026
My personal website using Astro.js
Contributions:7 PRs, 19 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
rakeshpetit/nse-analysis
Apr 2020 - Feb 2025
Analyse NSE data
Contributions:57 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 10 months
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