Sathya Gunasekaran
Founder at Stealth Startup
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSathya Gunasekaran is a CTO and seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building high-performance runtimes and developer-facing libraries, most notably contributing to the V8 JavaScript engine used in Chrome and Node.js. He has bridged deep systems engineering and product leadership—authoring JavaScript language features at TC39, shipping React improvements at Meta, and founding an AI accounting startup acquired into his current role. An active open-source contributor, he has improved projects from RethinkDB’s backend robustness to Orbot’s Android UX and added tests to the Emscripten toolchain. Based in the Bay Area, he combines compiler-level expertise in C++ and WebAssembly with practical product instincts for shipping reliable, real-world systems.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigher Secondary School Computer Science, Higher Secondary School Computer Science at Bala Vidya MandirBachelor of Engineering Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Science at College of Engineering, Guindy
Github Skills (31)
ux-design10
filesystem10
c-language10
back-end-development10
testing10
http10
c1110
ui-design10
file-operations10
android-development10
java10
c1710
javas10
fileio10
emscripten10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
guardianproject/orbot-android
May 2011 - Sep 2012
The Github home of Orbot: Tor on Android (Also available on gitlab!)
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:37 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sathya primarily contributed to the Android application's user interface and user experience. Their work involved designing and implementing the initial wizard screens, including introduction, warning, and permission screens. They also updated the UI for data traffic display and included a setting for disabling network activity within the Tor service.
censorship-circumventionsecurityandroidgitlabanonymity
rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
The open-source database for the realtime web.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 25 days
Contributions summary:Sathya contributed to the RethinkDB project by addressing various backend-related tasks. They focused on improving the HTTP request handling, converting query parameters and header lines to more efficient map data structures. Additionally, they fixed a warning and ensured that headers were only added when they did not already exist, thereby refining code quality and robustness. The user also addressed minor issues such as removing redundant messages and updating content lengths.
realtimenosql-databasebackend-as-a-servicereal-timeclient-library
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