Vignesh Murugesan
Software Engineer at Ema Unlimited
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVignesh Murugesan is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable, user-focused web and infrastructure tooling across major tech companies and startups. He has driven front-end and full-stack improvements at Netflix and Facebook—modernizing Spinnaker’s UI build system, delivering PR/branch deploy previews, and architecting Ads Manager flows that increased ad creation and simplified partner integration. A pragmatic engineering leader and former CTO/co‑founder, he blends startup agility with large-scale production discipline, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His open-source contributions to the widely used Spinnaker Deck UI include deep-linking, deploy-state visual cues, and multiple reliability fixes for AWS integrations—work that improves developer and operator workflows. Trained at Carnegie Mellon (MSIT Software Engineering), he brings a rare combination of product empathy, developer tooling expertise, and hands-on execution across frontend, backend, and infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSIT Software Engineering, MSIT Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.E Computer Science, B.E Computer Science at SSN College of Engineering
Github Skills (13)
uid10
typescript10
typescripts10
spinnaker10
ui-design10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
amazon-web-services9
javascript8
css7
html7
git6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
spinnaker/deck
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Management UI for Spinnaker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:190 reviews, 247 commits, 292 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Vignesh contributed to the Spinnaker Deck UI by re-exporting types and re-factoring various UI components. They implemented bug fixes related to the Amazon load balancer, security groups, and IAM roles, along with fixing a typo in the instance details. The user also added features such as making the server group's details field overridable, passing the application to the details field, and deep linking resources to their infrastructure view. Furthermore, they improved the UI for managing resources by showing the deploying state in environments view and adding a status bubble to denote the resource status, along with a popover.
reactmanagement-uispinnakerreactjsapollo-client
vigneshm/deck
Feb 2020 - Aug 2021
Management UI for Spinnaker
Contributions:287 pushes, 361 branches in 1 year 6 months
reactmanagement-uispinnaker
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