Suthan Bala
Team Lead at Scotiabank
Markham, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSuthan Bala is a seasoned web engineer and people leader with 10 years of experience designing and delivering high-performance, accessible front-end solutions for major Canadian banks and digital publishers. Currently a Team Lead at Scotiabank, he combines hands-on React and modern web tooling expertise with mentorship, code review, and a history of building reusable component libraries and CSS design languages. He has a pragmatic full-stack background—ranging from PHP/Rails and CMS work to WebPack, Cordova, and Node-based build systems—which helps him bridge product, design, and engineering teams. Known for shipping under deadlines, optimizing performance, and improving developer workflows, he also brings entrepreneurial experience from founding and monetizing web properties. Based in Markham, Ontario, he pairs technical depth with strong communication and a track record of turning designs into accessible, production-ready experiences.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Web Developer Certificate, Web Developer Certificate at George Brown College
Tamil
Stackoverflow
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81answers
89questions
Github Skills (81)
reload10
wordpress10
gulp10
docker9
sass9
reader8
pdf-generation8
appointment8
wordpress-plugin8
pdf8
displays7
wordpress-api7
reservation-system7
chrome-extension7
boilerplate7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
suthanbala/wordpress-docker-gulp
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
This project utilizes Docker to get WordPress setup and run on your local machine. It uses Gulp to watch and live reload your SASS and JS changes
Contributions:2 releases, 70 commits, 29 PRs in 4 years 9 months
sassgulpreloadlive-reloadwordpress
suthanbala/opentable
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
OpenTable API
Contributions:1 push in 5 months
opentableapiopentable-apinodejs
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