Somasundaram Ayyappan
Volunteer at Proud Indian
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSomasundaram Ayyappan is a full-stack software engineer with 13 years of experience designing and shipping high-performance web applications, specializing in React, TypeScript, Node.js, and GraphQL. He spent over seven years at Hygraph driving two full product rewrites, delivering large-scale features quickly while leading performance optimizations that directly prevented churn of major enterprise clients. Equally comfortable across frontend and backend, he has deep expertise in GraphQL architectures, developer experience improvements, and strategic refactoring to reduce bugs and boost velocity. An active open-source contributor, he has improved developer tooling and UX in notable projects such as react-boilerplate and contributed backend work to DuckDuckGo’s instant answers. Based in Bengaluru, he also volunteers building digital platforms for community events, demonstrating a practical commitment to impact beyond product teams. Known for simplifying complex systems, he pairs rapid iteration with an insistence on clean, maintainable code.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Sriram Engineering College
Tamil, English
Github Skills (32)
scaffolding10
javascript10
command-line-interface10
perl10
redux10
webpack10
webpacker10
command-line10
css-modules10
nodejs10
react10
cli10
handlebars9
duckduckgo9
redux-saga9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Hashnode/mern-starter
May 2016 - Jun 2017
⛔️ DEPRECATED - Boilerplate for getting started with MERN stack
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 61 commits, 27 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Somasundaram primarily focused on updating the MERN stack starter project, modifying several key components. They refactored the file structure and updated the PostList and App components. The user also incorporated react-intl for internationalization and added code splitting and hot reloading features. Additionally, they upgraded the webpack configuration, including the addition of CSS modules.
reactboilerplateexpressjsmernexpress
Hashnode/mern-cli
May 2016 - Jun 2016
A cli tool for getting started with MERN
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 28 days
Contributions summary:Somasundaram primarily contributed to the development of the MERN CLI tool, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work included refactoring code, adding ESLint for code quality, and adding new generators to the CLI. The user also implemented features to enable cloning of different project variants and made various improvements to the project's structure and functionality.
reactexpressjsexpressmerncli-tool
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