Sonu Oommen is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems for consumer internet products, currently driving growth engineering at Truecaller in Stockholm. He brings deep expertise in Ruby on Rails and Scala/Play, having moved from senior backend roles at Chillr to ads and growth teams at Truecaller where he focuses on scalable feature delivery and user-facing impact. Sonu contributes to open-source LMS work—improving event workflows, validations and UX-focused CSS fixes—showing attention to both backend correctness and front-end polish. A B.Tech. in Computer Science from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, he pairs pragmatic engineering with product sensibility, often surfacing subtle UX and data-quality improvements that boost engagement.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at College of Engineering, Trivandrum
A learning management system (LMS) that lets you run an asynchronous online school, where learning is achieved through focused tasks, directed feedback, an iterative workflow, and community interaction.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:141 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sonu contributed to the development of the learning management system by correcting styling issues and updating event-related functionality. They modified CSS files to improve the visual presentation and made changes to the events controller and event models. The commits also included the addition of validations, the implementation of approval notifications, and the refinement of date and time displays.
A date and time picker for Twitter Bootstrap in Rails using Simple Form
Contributions:3 comments, 4 issues in 1 day
time-pickerrailsrubysimple-formtwitter
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