Thenaesh Elango
Associate Cybersecurity Specialist
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolThenaesh Elango is an Associate Cybersecurity Specialist based in Singapore with 11 years of software engineering experience, combining strong front-end development chops with security-focused practice. At GovTech he applies practical engineering and security know-how informed by earlier work modernising and hardening web applications, including significant front-end contributions to the popular TEAMMATES open-source feedback platform. He brings a rigorous academic foundation—dual honours in Mathematics and Computer Science from NUS—and hands-on teaching experience as a Head TA, which shaped his ability to explain complex technical concepts and mentor others. Notably, his early contributions included ES6 migrations, fixing a serious security issue, and mentoring Google Summer of Code students, reflecting both craftsmanship and an eye for reducing technical debt.
11 years of coding experience
GCE 'O' Levels, GCE 'O' Levels at Victoria School (Singapore)GCE 'A' Levels, GCE 'A' Levels at Raffles InstitutionBachelor of Science, Mathematics, Honours (Distinction), Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Honours (Distinction) at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (10)
html10
javascript10
angular10
java9
teammates9
javas9
control-systems8
ed255198
user-feedback8
css7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
TEAMMATES/teammates
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
TEAMMATES is a feedback management tool for education
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 21 commits, 74 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Thenaesh primarily contributed to the front-end of the project, evidenced by changes to HTML and JavaScript files. They addressed issues related to URL encoding, HTML sanitization, and JavaScript strict mode. The user also made significant changes in the instructor pages and created the infrastructure to handle the new features for the instructor. The changes affected functionalities of the application, focusing on improvements and bug fixes.
cssjavascriptteammatesfeedback-systemsproject-website
thenaesh/teammates
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:177 pushes, 26 branches in 6 months
cssjavascriptteammatesproject-websitefeedback
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