Summary:

• 10 years of experience in software development
• A free-software contributor
• Highly skilled in implementing backend development tasks like REST API development, 3rd party API integration, etc, across multiple languages and frameworks.
• Experienced in handling various GNU/Linux distributions via CLI.
• Proven ability to work effectively within a cross-functional Scrum team and sharing knowledge
• Adept at identifying and resolving process bottlenecks
• Comfortable with transitioning technologies, ready to learn and adapt to new tools and standards.
• Attention to details
• Demonstrated responsibility in managing full-cycle feature development.

Skills:

• Languages: Python, PHP, JavaScript
• Frameworks: Django, DRF, Flask, FastAPI, Laravel, VueJS
• Other tools/technologies: Emacs, Git, Leaflet, OpenStreetMap, Gitlab CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS
• Operating Systems: Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS
• Databases: PostgreSQL, MariaDB
• ORM: Django ORM, SQLAlchemy

Projects:

360 Metrics

Duration: April 2024 – May 2025

Technologies Used: Kubernetes, Python, VueJS, Docker

Project Description: 360metrics is a highly scalable network monitoring tool

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Application UI development using VueJS
• Backend API development using Fast API
• 3rd party tool integrations

Life Signals

Duration: January 2024 – December 2024

Technologies Used: AWS, Python, Bash, Docker

Project Description: Remote patient monitoring tool

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Application dockerization
• Help in setting up scalable infrastructure in AWS

Supermeet Inc - Conversational Meeting Scheduler

Duration: July 2022 – August 2023

Technologies Used: Django, PostgreSQL, DRF, Ubuntu

Project Description: A conversational meeting scheduler for the sales team. Features include: personal/work calendar, team scheduler, advanced lead routing and analytics.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Application backend development

Computing Freedom Collective

Duration: May 2019 – June 2022

Technologies Used: PHP, Laravel, MariaDB, CentOS, Python, Flask, PostgreSQL, Debian, OpenStreetMap, Leaflet

Project Description:

• Computing Freedom Collective Pvt Ltd is a startup promoting free and open-source software in the private and public sector. Projects include:
• Control Panel for managing cloud rendering software, for Felix Render UK
• Issue Management Portal for internal use, for GPS Renewables Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.
• Sales Tool for automating sales proposal generation, for GPS Renewables Pvt Ltd.
• Built “PowerMap” - a utility network management platform for Kerala State Electric Board (KSEB).
• Developed a custom OpenStreetMap tile server with corrected national boundary, for Kerala State Spatial Data Infrastructure (KSDI).
• Built “Seema” - a boundary management platform, for (KSDI)
• Built “Jalakam” - a thematic map viewer for 1035 local bodies in Kerala, for (KSDI)

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Requirements collection from clients
• Application development
• Team management

International Center for Free and Open-source Software (ICFOSS)

Duration: March 2018 – February 2019

Technologies Used: PHP, Laravel, Python, Django, PostgreSQL

Project Description: ICFOSS is an autonomous organization by the Govt. of Kerala for promoting free & open-source software in academics and governance.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage deployment servers & full backend system for all IoT projects.
• Developed attendance management system for internal use.
• Part of 4-member team who implemented and maintained LoRaWAN in Technopark campus, Trivandrum.

Kerala Startup Mission

Duration: May 2017 – February 2018

Technologies Used: Embedded-programming, 3D-printing, CNC-Machine, digital-fabrication

Project Description: Kerala Startup Mission is the central agency of the Government of Kerala for entrepreneurship development and incubation activities in Kerala, India.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Help startups in using Fablab machines for building prototypes.

TravelPeg

Duration: February 2016 – April 2017

Technologies Used: HTML, CSS, JS, Python, Django, PostgreSQL

Project Description: A crowdsourced travel application for active tourism. Features include social networking (travel profile, newsfeed, connections, message, text/image posts, like/comment), trip planner, travel package listing for agents, rating, etc.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Plan, design, implement, test and deploy the application.
• Integrate necessary third-party APIs

Dreamseed Technologies

Duration: April 2014 – January 2016

Technologies Used: HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, MariaDB, Wordpress, CodeIgnitor

Project Description: Dreamseed Technologies is a web development and design firm.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Design & develop static & dynamic web sites for multiple clients.

Public Contributions

Project Description:

• Swatantra Malayalam Computing (SMC) - Involved in localisation of gnome modules.
• Debian Packaging - Involved in Debian packaging of NodeJS modules. Packaged modules include:

1. Node-wcwidth (https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-wcwidth.js/ /commits/master?author=suhail)
2. Node-array-uniq (https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-array-uniq/ /commits/master?author=suhail)
3. Node-defaults (https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/node-defaults/ /commits/master?author=suhail)
4. Rust-csscolorparser (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-csscolorparser)
5. Rust-cint (https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rust-cint)

• Npm2deb - Npm2deb is a CLI tool (python) to make packaging of NodeJS modules.

1. Added features for automating tasks for quick packaging
2. commits: https://github.com/LeoIannacone/npm2deb/commits/master?author=ps uhailp

• Bug fix in wcwidth.js (https://github.com/mycoboco/wcwidth.js/commits/master?author=psuhailp)
• Bug fix in ocitysmap (https://github.com/hholzgra/ocitysmap/commits/master?author=psuhailp)
• Typo fix in glib (https://github.com/GNOME/glib/commits/main?author=psuhailp)