Satish Gandham
Technical Lead, Engineering Manager at Lyric
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSatish Gandham is a seasoned frontend engineer and technical leader with 11+ years of experience building high-performance, scalable web applications and developer tools, currently leading engineering at Lyric. He has driven measurable performance wins—improving render and load times by multiple factors at Appsmith and Plane—and built reusable UI systems that cut query and render latency dramatically. As a founder of SwiftThemes and other startups, he combines product intuition with hands-on engineering, growing a paid user base from open-source/consumer products. Comfortable shipping under vague requirements, he excels at setting technical vision, reducing operational noise, and mentoring teams to own performance and reliability. An active contributor to notable open-source projects like Appsmith and Plane, he focuses on UI component quality, Storybook integration, and catching regressions early via CI-integrated performance testing.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (21)
debug10
javascript10
storybook10
ui-components10
typescript10
nextjs10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
performance-optimization9
windows-gui9
web-development-project9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
appsmithorg/appsmith
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:614 reviews, 117 commits, 237 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Satish primarily contributed to the Appsmith platform's front-end development, focusing on bug fixes and feature enhancements within the UI components. Their commits addressed issues related to the Map Widget, Table Widget and MultiSelectWidget, indicating a focus on improving user experience and resolving application crashes. Furthermore, the user worked on adding performance tracking and code consistency rules, highlighting a commitment to code quality and optimization. The commits also included refactoring and optimization in widgets like the list widget and fixing unnecessary renders.
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makeplane/plane
May 2024 - Dec 2024
🔥 🔥 🔥 Open Source JIRA, Linear, Monday, and Asana Alternative. Plane helps you track your issues, epics, and cycles the easiest way on the planet.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1044 reviews, 664 PRs, 738 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Satish contributed significantly to the UI component development within the `plane` repository. Their work includes refactoring menu button behavior, adding Storybook integration for the UI package, and implementing new components related to estimates such as sortable and typography components. They also made contributions to the web application layout and preloading of APIs required to bootstrap the application. Additionally, the user addressed issues related to local caching and made several fixes.
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