Ashwath Kannan
Associate Software Engineer
Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwath Kannan is an Associate Software Engineer with three years of hands-on experience building backend services, APIs, and reliable systems, currently scaling expense management products within Sage after its acquisition of Fyle. He has a strong open-source pedigree from Oppia Foundation—where as a GSoC mentee and later team lead he shipped multiple full‑stack features that improved translation workflows and increased contributor efficiency by 75%, while raising test coverage. Comfortable across Python, Beam jobs, Angular, and CSS, he pairs backend reliability work with front-end polish (e.g., UI and accessibility fixes in the widely used Oppia learning platform). Ashwath has practical cloud deployment experience (AWS EC2, gunicorn, nginx) and a knack for automation—his internship work reduced building design time from 10 days to 2–3 days by autogenerating Staad syntax. Based in Roorkee, India, he blends open-source collaboration and product-focused engineering, often creating tutorials and mentoring peers to share institutional knowledge. He brings a pragmatic, user-centered approach to shipping resilient systems that scale.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma PCM, High School Diploma PCM at Greenway Modern SchoolBachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Engineering at Quantum University
Github Skills (13)
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css10
uid10
front-end-development10
angular10
ui-design9
font-awesome9
interface-design9
javascript9
user-interface9
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
oppia/oppia
Jan 2023 - Sep 2025
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:192 reviews, 104 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ashwath primarily contributed to front-end development, focusing on the implementation of UI elements. Their work involved replacing Material Icons with Font Awesome icons, fixing button visibility and positioning, and addressing keyboard focus issues. They also added and styled beta notices and implemented the translation length label, demonstrating expertise in HTML, CSS, and Angular, with a focus on improving the user interface and user experience.
appenginereactpythonlearning-platformquality-education
Ash-2k3/oppia
Jan 2023 - May 2025
A free, online learning platform to make quality education accessible for all.
Contributions:1 PR, 669 pushes, 76 branches in 2 years 3 months
quality-educationreactlearning-platformaccessiblejavascript
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