Vignesh Kumar
Product Design Lead at Baselane
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolVignesh Kumar is a Product Design Lead with 14 years of experience blending front-end engineering and user-centered design to build and scale products across early-stage B2B and B2C startups. He’s led design teams and systems that drove rapid growth—helping scale a mobile app during 700% business expansion and earning a B2B product recognition as the most user-friendly ATS. Comfortable with both analytics and creativity, he pairs behavioral psychology insights (Master’s in Applied Psychology) with a Computer Science background and prior frontend work to balance technical feasibility with excellent UX. He’s an active practitioner who improves developer handoffs, design systems and onboarding flows, and has contributed front-end fixes to open-source projects like jQuery.ime, showing attention to compatibility and real-world edge cases. Now based in Toronto and available immediately, he focuses on pragmatic, research-led product design that accelerates adoption and retention.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Applied Psychology, Master's degree, Applied Psychology at Annamalai UniversityB.E, Computer Science & Engineering, B.E, Computer Science & Engineering at Madras Institute of Technology
French, English, Tamil, Kannada, Hindi, Malayalam
Stackoverflow
542reputation
50kreached
9answers
7questions
model-view-controller
top-5%
Github Skills (16)
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
ui-design9
model-view-controller9
css9
user-interface8
accessibility8
graphical-user-interface8
jquery-selectors6
jquery-ui6
html6
image-resizing6
backbonejs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/jquery.ime
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
jQuery based input methods library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 14 days
Contributions summary:Vignesh focused on enhancing the user experience and fixing compatibility issues within the jQuery-based input methods library. They addressed focus retention problems, ensured compatibility with older versions of Internet Explorer by converting SVGs to PNGs and updating the DOM structure of the IME menu. The user also corrected issues with the IME selector not firing in certain input states and made adjustments to the positioning of the IME menu.
input-methodjquery
vikynandha-zz/google-drive-backup
Jan 2013 - May 2017
Contributions:8 commits in 4 years 4 months
pythonsyncgooglegoogle-drivepython-script
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