Ranga Vadhineni
Founder at Thunder Client
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolRanga Vadhineni is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 11 years of experience building cloud-native web and mobile applications, specializing in Microsoft .NET and Azure. He created Thunder Client, a lightweight VS Code REST API client with over 4 million downloads, and continues to actively develop it—adding advanced features like custom filters, environment variable handling, and external module loading. Ranga has a strong full-stack background spanning C#, ASP.NET MVC, Web API, React Native/Xamarin mobile work, and databases from SQL Azure to Elasticsearch. He has a track record of founding and scaling product-focused startups (Localmint, ServiceDock) and delivering enterprise solutions at companies including Microsoft and Dell. Comfortable shipping both developer tools and consumer-facing platforms, he blends hands-on engineering with product intuition and a knack for simplifying complex developer workflows.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
M.S Computer Science, M.S Computer Science at Griffith College DublinB.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at Chaitanya Bharati Institute of Technology(CBIT)
English
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
vscode-extension10
rest-client10
nodejs10
typescript9
typescript-types9
api9
typescripts9
apim8
testing8
command-execution7
file-handling7
graphql6
netcore6
automated-tests6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
thunderclient/thunder-client-support
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Thunder Client is a lightweight Rest API Client Extension for VS Code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:94 releases, 10 reviews, 426 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Ranga primarily contributed to the `thunder-client-support` repository by developing custom filters for the Thunder Client extension. They added features such as environment variable access and setting, loading of external node modules, and file reading/command execution capabilities. These filters appear to provide enhanced functionality for API testing and interaction within the VS Code extension, leveraging built-in and external modules. The user also updated the type definition files to support the newly added features, ensuring a better developer experience with code completion.
api-clientapivscodevscode-extensionapi-client-extension
rangav/ChatExample
May 2015 - Jul 2022
ChatExample with Pusher public and private channels with Asp.Net MVc
Contributions:7 PRs, 15 pushes, 6 branches in 7 years 3 months
dotnetasp-net-mvcaspchatprivate-channels
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