Vignesh Sankaran
Senior IOS Engineer at Jora
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolVignesh Sankaran is a Senior iOS Engineer based in Melbourne with 11 years of experience building and maintaining high‑scale mobile apps and lifting legacy codebases. He combines a background in test automation and CI migration with hands‑on iOS development, advocating for software quality and stability across large user bases—most recently contributing to SEEK’s job search app used by 800k+ daily active users across eight markets. Comfortable across the stack, he has also worked on high‑traffic backends and contributed backend fixes to the widely used rust-lang/crates.io registry, demonstrating an ability to move between mobile and server-side concerns. Vignesh has led efforts to migrate CI to the cloud, increase test coverage, and improve reliability of UI tests, bringing pragmatic engineering and measurable outcomes. Colleague‑focused and curious, he has a history of prototyping (including a Rust backend for a transport app) and has won awards for creative tech work, reflecting both technical depth and user-centered problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at Swinburne University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (14)
rust10
cargo10
postgresql9
git8
database-design8
objective-c6
unit-testing6
ios6
delegates6
docker6
github6
nsurlsession6
api-design6
documentation5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/crates.io
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
The Rust package registry
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 19 PRs, 139 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vignesh primarily focused on backend development within the `crates.io` repository. They implemented code formatting using `cargo fmt`, reverted a `cargo fmt` change, and made numerous code improvements to the `src/krate.rs` file, including adding and modifying validation checks, blacklisting documentation URLs, and refactoring functions. Further contributions included changes to database transaction management and the implementation of a transfer-crates script with associated code improvements.
rustpackage-registrycargo
vignesh-sankaran/crates.io
Jun 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:127 pushes, 17 branches in 6 months
rustcrates-iocrates
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