Jithin Thankachan
Chief Executive Officer at Computing Freedom Collective
Kerala, India
Summary
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Top SchoolJithin Thankachan is a software leader and founder with a decade of experience building full-stack systems, leading engineering teams, and scaling startups focused on sustainability and free software. As CEO of Computing Freedom Collective and former lead engineer at GPS Renewables, he has delivered large-scale projects—from automating 30k+ HD maps for Kerala LSGs in three days to deploying monitoring and proposal automation across 70+ renewable plants—while growing teams and improving delivery and efficiency. A committed free-software advocate who cut his teeth at SPACE Kerala, he has contributed H5P modules, led community workshops, and implemented FOSS-driven workflows that reduced costs and enabled resilient operations during COVID. He blends hands-on technical depth across Go, Node.js, GraphQL, Docker, React, Laravel, Python and cloud infra with people-centered leadership rooted in values of hard work, empathy, and environmental stewardship.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science at Government Engineering College Idukki - India
English, Malayalam
Github Skills (34)
bug-tracker10
scrum10
gantt-chart10
h5p9
jira9
javascript9
open-source9
content-type9
agile-development9
project-planning9
angular8
agile8
kanban8
product-management8
ocr8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
space-kerala/lekha_OCR_1.0
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:12 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 2 months
malayalamocr
jithin-space/h5p-ImageSequencing
Apr 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 12 PRs, 36 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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