Velu Gautam
Staff Software Engineer at Warner Bros. Discovery
Stockholm, Sweden
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Top SchoolVelu Gautam is a Staff Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 11 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and performance-first web applications across media, e-commerce, and healthcare. He currently mentors teams and builds measurement, testing and automation tools for max.com at Warner Bros. Discovery, after leading similar initiatives in analytics, performance optimization and developer experience at ComeOn! and athenahealth. Velu spans front-end and back-end stacks—React, Node.js, TypeScript, Go, WebAssembly—and has production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud. He contributes to MDN’s interactive-examples, modernizing ES6 JavaScript samples for one of the web’s most widely used documentation platforms, reflecting a commitment to developer education. Known for improving runtime performance and developer workflows, he combines hands-on coding with coaching to drive measurable product and engineering improvements. His background in founding and leading web companies gives him pragmatic product sensibility alongside deep technical craft.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at Cochin University of Science and TechnologyMaster of Business Administration - MBA Marketing and Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA Marketing and Finance at University of Kerala
Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, English
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Github Skills (19)
javascript10
arraybuffer10
dataview10
es6-promise10
mdns10
mdc10
s610
reflect10
mdt10
editor9
editors9
css9
html9
angular6
react6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/interactive-examples
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Home of the MDN live code editor interactive examples
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 10 commits, 18 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Velu primarily focused on updating and refactoring the JavaScript code examples within the MDN interactive examples repository. They implemented and updated various ES6 features related to ArrayBuffer, DataView, Promises, Reflect properties, and more. Their work included fixing ES6-related code and updating the examples, ensuring they utilized modern JavaScript syntax and functionality. They also performed general clean-up and refactoring tasks, such as updating "var" to "const" in the codebase.
reactcssjavascriptlive-codenodejs
velusgautam/reuse
Aug 2019 - Oct 2024
Reusable simple libraries with tree shaking imports
Contributions:10 releases, 33 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 years 3 months
tree-shakingjavascriptreusableimports
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