Saneem Perinkadakkat
CEO & Co-Founder at Desh Keyboard
Kerala, India
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Top SchoolSaneem Perinkadakkat is a product-driven founder and engineer with 12 years of experience building consumer and web applications, currently CEO and Co‑Founder of Desh Keyboard — a native-language keyboard app that has surpassed 100 million downloads and handles billions of daily network requests. He blends hands-on full‑stack engineering (from Android clients to backend and DevOps) with product and growth sensibilities, having previously built customer-feedback tools and custom CRM solutions. A mechanical engineer by training who transitioned into software, Saneem also contributes to civic open-source work such as the RescueKerala site, showing a knack for fast, pragmatic projects that serve communities. He enjoys scaling small, multidisciplinary teams and creating accessible typing experiences through transliteration, handwriting and voice input.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Mechanical Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut
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Github Skills (17)
python10
django10
open-source10
bootstrap9
database-migrations9
ui-design9
css9
database-migration9
bootstra9
html9
javascript8
fileio6
php6
django-rest-framework6
jquery6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
raksha-life/rescuekerala
Aug 2018 - Aug 2018
Website for coordinating rehabilitation of people affected in the Kerala Floods
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 16 PRs, 21 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Saneem primarily contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the "rescuekerala" website. Their work involved adding links, fixing UI issues, and updating the user interface across multiple templates and views. They also implemented translations and made code changes that suggest they worked with Django's model migrations, and modified the admin interface, indicating involvement in both the application logic and presentation layers.
keralafloodreactpythonaffected
xaneem/flipbot
Apr 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
flipkartpythonkeywordkeyword-analysis
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