Santhosh Thottingal
Principal Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
Kerala, India
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Top SchoolSanthosh Thottingal is a Principal Software Engineer with nearly two decades of experience specializing in language computing, multilingual tooling, and typography. At Wikimedia Foundation he has architected language infrastructure and translation systems that serve millions, and his open-source contributions include impactful work on widely used projects like jquery.ime and fonttools. He is also a renowned digital typeface designer—creator and maintainer of popular Malayalam fonts such as Manjari, Chilanka, Nupuram and Malini—bringing a rare blend of aesthetic sensibility to engineering problems for complex scripts. Santhosh has built sustainable developer communities around low-resource language tech, contributed academic research, and led delivery of production systems used by hundreds of thousands daily. His background combining front-end input method improvements, back-end font parsing enhancements, and localization expertise uniquely positions him to solve hard problems at the intersection of NLP, typography, and user-facing systems. Based in Kerala, India, he pairs deep technical rigor with cultural and linguistic insight to make multilingual computing genuinely accessible.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PreDegree, Science, PreDegree, Science at MES Kalladi College MannarkkadBachelor's degree(B Tech), Computer Science, Bachelor's degree(B Tech), Computer Science at NSS College of Engineering
Malayalam, English, Tamil
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
rails-i18n10
pytest10
jquery10
python10
intl10
user-interface10
localization10
svg10
ember-i18n10
front-end-development10
parsing10
i18n-js10
testing9
fonts9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/jquery.i18n
Jul 2012 - Jul 2022
🌐 jQuery based internationalization library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & Localization/Internationalization Specialist
Front-end Developer & Localization/Internationalization SpecialistContributions:3 releases, 161 commits, 42 PRs in 10 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Santhosh primarily contributed to the front-end development of a jQuery-based internationalization library. They implemented support for placeholder replacements, pluralization, and gender-specific messaging features. The commits also include updates to test cases, API improvements, and the addition of new demo examples to showcase the library's capabilities. The user focused on improving internationalization and localization support within the jQuery library.
jquerytranslationjavascriptinternationalizationintl
wikimedia/jquery.ime
Jul 2012 - Nov 2021
jQuery based input methods library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 9 reviews, 344 commits in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Santhosh's commits primarily focus on improvements to the IME (Input Method Editor) library, particularly within the Javascript code files. The changes include refactoring and adding functionality related to the UI for the IME selector. This includes adding new user interface elements such as languages and disabling methods along with fixes for cursor positioning in the context of content editable divs.
javascriptjquery
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