Vinoth Kannan
Director at Vinkas
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVinoth Kannan is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of professional experience, currently serving as Director of Vinkas and founder of vinkashq in Madurai, India. He combines entrepreneurial drive with hands-on engineering, having moved from web and mobile development roles into long-term full-stack work at Discourse where he contributed front-end UI enhancements to a prominent open-source community platform. Comfortable shipping JavaScript-driven interfaces and CSS/theme improvements, he focuses on improving user experience through pragmatic UI components like search menus and preference support. His career blends product-minded leadership with deep implementation experience across startups and open-source ecosystems. A B.Sc. in Mathematics underpins his analytical approach, and his repeated leadership roles at Vinkas reflect a knack for evolving small teams into sustained engineering organizations.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Maths, B.Sc., Maths at Nadar Mahajana Sangam S. Vellaichamy Nadar College
English, Tamil, Japanese
Stackoverflow
242reputation
38kreached
6answers
10questions
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
emberjs9
html9
javascript-framework8
css8
cs37
admob6
firebase6
google-play-services6
api6
php6
android6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:114 reviews, 747 commits, 442 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Vinoth primarily worked on front-end development tasks, implementing UI components, fixing styling issues, and improving the user experience. Their contributions focused on JavaScript-based components, including search menus and other UI elements, and they also made changes to the CSS styles of the theme. Moreover, they worked on features like topic status and private message updates and added support for user preferences.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
vinkasarchive/assist
May 2020 - Jun 2022
A Desktop Assistant
Contributions:11 PRs, 16 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years
electronpomodoroproductivityassistantdesktop-assistant
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