Sibi Prabakaran
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSibi Prabakaran is a versatile software engineer with 14 years of experience building backend systems, developer tooling, and secure web services, with deep expertise in functional languages like Haskell, Rust, Scala and Lisp-family languages. He has shipped production systems and DevOps solutions for startups and enterprises—authoring Haskell-based servers, deployment workflows, and integrations with third-party payment and messaging providers. An active open-source contributor, Sibi has improved major projects such as the Haskell Tool Stack, Yesod, Hasura’s MySQL backend, and Emacs LSP integrations for Terraform, often focusing on CLI features, security fixes, and developer experience. Comfortable across Linux stacks, databases (Postgres/MySQL/SQLite/PostGIS) and Emacs-driven workflows, he blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic product delivery. Notably, he has fixed critical CSRF vulnerabilities, added explain APIs for query introspection, and extended language tooling to surface semantic tokens and code lenses. Based in Bengaluru, he thrives on technical challenges that push system reliability, security, and developer productivity.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B. Tech, Computer Science, B. Tech, Computer Science at Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology and Research AcademyISC, Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Chemistry, ISC, Computer Science, Maths, Physics, Chemistry at Nirmala Convent Inter College
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Github Skills (62)
database-migrations10
api-rest10
cargo10
jvm10
back-end-development10
mysql10
restful-api10
api-design10
testing10
command-line-interface10
yesod10
language-server-protocol10
faker10
wpgraphql10
terraform10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
commercialhaskell/stack
Jun 2015 - Aug 2022
The Haskell Tool Stack
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 187 commits, 62 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Sibi primarily focused on adding and refactoring command-line interface (CLI) features for the Haskell Tool Stack, specifically related to listing snapshots and dependencies. Their work involved implementing a new subcommand and integrating existing functionalities. They also made changes to the project's core modules to include the new features. The commits show a focus on adding functionality, fixing related bugs, and porting existing features into new subcommands.
haskell
yesodweb/persistent
Jul 2015 - Jun 2020
Persistence interface for Haskell allowing multiple storage methods.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:147 commits, 101 PRs, 56 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sibi primarily focused on refactoring and cleaning up code within the `persistent` library, specifically modules related to database interaction and persistence. They removed unused extensions, cleaned up code in `PersistStore`, `PersistQuery` and various other modules. The user also implemented and added `mockMigration` functionality for PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite backends.
haskell
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