Sowmia Sundararajan
Senior Android Engineer at Automattic
Kuttapalayam, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolSowmia Sundararajan is a Senior Android Engineer with 11 years of experience building robust mobile apps and shipping production-grade features. Currently at Automattic, she contributes to flagship open-source Android projects like WordPress-Android and WooCommerce, having implemented site management enhancements and refactored core viewmodels for better testability. As a freelancer and product developer she builds client features, performance improvements, an open-source Jetpack Compose StepperView, and her own product “Where is ISS?”. Her background includes banking and enterprise applications from a long tenure at TCS, giving her strong domain experience in secure, large-scale app development. She favors clean, maintainable code and pragmatic architecture changes that reduce complexity and improve developer experience. Based in Tamil Nadu, India, she combines open-source collaboration with product-minded engineering—a mix that surfaces in both client work and her public projects.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science and Engineering at SSM College of Engineering
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android10
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Github contributions (5)
wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
WordPress for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:10 reviews, 174 commits, 8 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sowmia primarily worked on enhancing the WordPress for Android application, focusing on features related to site management and user interaction. Their commits involved code modifications to handle site deletion, including updating the UI to display site pickers and implementing the necessary logic for managing multiple sites. They also refactored the application's architecture by injecting dependencies into the WPMainActivityViewModel and creating extension functions to streamline common tasks.
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SowmiaS/WordPress-Android
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
WordPress for Android
Contributions:48 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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