Vikneshwar Loganathan
Senior Software Engineer at Deel
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolVikneshwar Loganathan is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications from Chennai, India. He excels in frontend engineering—refactoring React components, improving accessibility, and reducing performance KPIs—while also shipping backend features in Node.js and integrating analytics for product insight. At Automattic he contributed to the high-profile wp-calypso codebase, migrating tests to React Testing Library and driving UX and upsell improvements for Jetpack’s pricing pages. He has a proven track record of modernizing legacy stacks (Angular/ExtJS to React) and raising test coverage above 85% to improve maintainability. Comfortable in both product and leadership roles, he has led triage, mentoring, and cross-team integrations that tangibly improved acquisition and revenue metrics. Outside feature work, he often focuses on measurable frontend performance gains and analytics-driven product decisions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at KCG College of Technology
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
testing-library10
front-end-development10
react10
redux9
css9
html9
wordpress8
accessibility8
testing8
closures6
forloop6
aws-sdk6
asynchronous6
visual-studio-code6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/wp-calypso
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
The JavaScript and API powered WordPress.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:49 reviews, 44 commits, 71 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Vikneshwar primarily contributed to the front-end development of the WordPress.com platform. Their work involved refactoring and testing React components, specifically related to date pickers and product stores, using testing libraries. They implemented features like a product filter and view selection using query parameters. Additionally, they made enhancements to the user interface, including styling and accessibility improvements, while integrating components like the masterbar and mini-cart.
apireactwordpressjavascriptes6
vikneshwar/GrabYourTickets
Jul 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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