Thanga Ayyanar
Full Stack Developer at Kanchipuram Linux User Group
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolThanga Ayyanar is a versatile full stack developer with 10 years of experience, currently contributing to Zoho’s product stack while bringing deep iOS expertise from years building core modules, offline features, CI tooling and framework deployment. Comfortable across languages and tooling — notably Linux, Emacs and Scheme/Lisp — he combines backend Rust contributions (including testing and FFI work for the popular newsboat project) with frontend and mobile system design. An active member of the Tamil Linux Community and local LUGs, he speaks at regional tech events and translates open-source books into Tamil to broaden access to technical knowledge. Practical, community-minded, and detail-oriented, he favors robust testing and automation as part of delivering maintainable software.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Velammal College of Engineering & Technology, MaduraiJunior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching, Junior High/Intermediate/Middle School Education and Teaching at M.S.R.Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Tamil, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (22)
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c-language7
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
newsboat/newsboat
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
An RSS/Atom feed reader for text terminals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Thanga primarily contributed to the Rust implementation within the `newsboat/newsboat` repository, focusing on utility functions and integration tests. Their work involved modifying the `libnewsboat-ffi` and `libnewsboat` crates, including the `rs_get_default_browser` and `rs_resolve_tilde` functions. They also added and refactored unit and integration tests, demonstrating a focus on testing the Rust codebase.
giftrssrss-feed-readerrss-readerterminals
ThangaAyyanar/Python
Oct 2016 - Feb 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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