Vinod
Engineering Manager at Ciena
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVinod CG is an Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building and leading distributed front-end teams to deliver developer tooling and UX-focused products. At Ciena he grew and managed a team of 14, driving architecture, design docs, hiring, and delivery of multiple VS Code extensions for the Blue Planet platform while maintaining hands-on contributions. A pragmatic full‑stack engineer by training, he has migrated legacy front-ends, implemented visualization libraries, CI/CD pipelines, and improved developer workflows. He is an active open‑source contributor to Appsmith, improving its code editor UX with linting, autocomplete and evaluated-value features that streamline API editing. Colleagues describe him as an eager learner and collaborative coach who pairs deep technical ownership with user-centered product iteration across timezones.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, 65%, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, 65% at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.43, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.43 at Auburn University
Kannada, Telugu, Hindi, English
Github Skills (12)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
web-development10
codemirror10
react10
typescript-types10
app-builder9
low-code8
windows-gui8
admin7
dashboard7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
appsmithorg/appsmith
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 64 commits, 22 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vinod primarily focused on improving the code editor's functionality and user experience within the Appsmith platform. They implemented linting features, displaying lint errors as warnings directly in the editor, and addressed issues with string templates. Additionally, they added a copy button for evaluated values and fixed autocomplete issues, enhancing the overall development workflow and user interaction with the API editor. The contributions involved modifications to the code editor, evaluation mechanisms, and relevant UI components.
custom-internaldeveloper-toolslow-code-frameworkcrudinternal-tools
vnodecg/ios-sdk
Jul 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 10 months
analyticsios-sdksdksdk-for-iosios
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