Shanavas S is a seasoned project manager with 11 years of experience leading software teams across Kerala and India, currently heading delivery at Techversant. He combines hands-on development roots—having worked as a senior PHP developer and contributed backend and full-stack code to open-source projects like Servo and a Kerala flood-relief site—with delivery-focused leadership across multiple SMEs. Shanavas is comfortable bridging client communication, project planning and technical execution, from UI/UX fixes and form automation to Rust backend refactors. His contributions to high-profile repos demonstrate an ability to dive into low-level bugs and tooling issues, while his local relief work shows a practical commitment to impact-driven engineering.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Vyasa Vidya Peethom
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at BMS Institute of Technology and Management
Contributions:96 commits, 78 PRs, 22 pushes in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Shanavas primarily focused on porting Emacs Lisp functions to Rust within the `remacs/remacs` repository, a Rust implementation of Emacs. Their contributions included porting various Emacs Lisp functions such as `multibyte-string-p`, `overlayp`, `buffer-live-p`, `unibyte-char-to-multibyte`, arithmetic comparison functions and more. They refactored code, fixed format errors, and ensured the ported functions worked correctly within the Rust environment.
Website for coordinating rehabilitation of people affected in the Kerala Floods
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 14 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Shanavas implemented several features for the Kerala flood relief website. They added functionality for automatically submitting forms, including contact-us and relief camps forms, and made the request list searchable. Additionally, the user addressed UI/UX by removing duplicate code, fixing pagination links, and incorporating the Manjari font for Malayalam text to improve readability. This work involved both front-end and back-end modifications to enhance the website's usability and functionality.
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