Vittal Aithal
Founder CTO at Cognidox Ltd
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorVittal Aithal is a founder-CTO and seasoned software engineer with 15 years’ experience building web infrastructure, secure internet services and globally distributed intranets from his base in Cambridge, UK. He has commercial roots in telecoms and IC design with senior roles at PIPEX/UUNet, British Telecom, Ionica and Virata/Conexant, and has led Cognidox since 2008. A pragmatic polyglot, he has deployed and maintained systems across Linux, Solaris, Windows and OpenBSD and across stacks including MySQL/PostgreSQL, Apache/IIS and languages from C and Java to Python, PHP and C#. He is an active open‑source author and maintainer—creator of Soupermail, OfficeToPDF and WordBridge—and a long‑time contributor on GForge, CodePlex and GitHub. Known for translating complex telecom and embedded-device requirements into practical web and embedded UI solutions, he combines low-level systems understanding with product-focused engineering.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (94)
twitter-bootstrap10
jquery-mobile10
powerpoint10
command-line-tool10
twitter10
jquery10
alpaca10
handlebars10
docx10
jquery-ui10
microsoft10
pdf10
openxml10
javascript9
timestamping9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cognidox/OfficeToPDF
May 2011 - Sep 2022
A command line tool to convert Microsoft Office documents to PDFs
Contributions:9 releases, 169 commits, 49 pushes in 11 years 6 months
command-line-toolpdfopenxmlpowerpointdocx
vittala/alpaca
Jul 2015 - Feb 2020
Alpaca provides the easiest way to generate interactive HTML5 forms for web and mobile applications. It uses JSON Schema and simple Handlebars templates to generate great looking, dynamic user interfaces on top of Twitter Bootstrap, jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile and HTML5.
Contributions:9 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
handlebars-templateshtml5on-topbootstrap4jquery-mobile
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