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Santhosh Thottingal

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Last updated 1 year ago

I am a language computing professional and a typeface designer.

I lead various language computing projects at Many of my works on Malayalam computing enable millions of Malayalam users on their computers or phones. I maintain a number of free software projects related to Indic language computing too.

I have done significant contributions to I have designed two popular Malayalam typefaces named Chilanka and Manjari. Also maintains a number of other Malayalam unicode fonts. You can see all of these fonts in . I also have

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Profession

Wikimedia Foundation

I work 4 days per week for WMF. This is not a WMF work policy, but I chose with a 20% pay cut. I use Fridays for my own learning, type design and such personal projectcs.

As principal software engineer, my work is mostly in the following categories:

  • Technology - I review the code written by team members. Help them understanding the systems and projects. I help designing the architecture of the projects. Helps in technical decision making. I also do coding for some of the critical architectural components. I help other teams in the organization by prividing consultation and reviews

  • Product: I help the team's product manager by giving inputs into decision, timelines, estimates. I provide creative concepts that can be incorporated into the product. I help writing documentation and status reports

  • Project: Faciliate the build to deploy life cycle by working with developers, test engineers, analytics and dev ops

  • Team: Mentoring, hiring interviews, sharing knowledge and helping self learning.

  • External: Opensource projects, interaction with peer organizations/companies, social media, blogs and standardization bodies.

Infosys

My role was mostly technology troubleshooting and helping senior architects. In the last 2 years at Infosys, I had a rather interesting role as extreme programmer where I was sent to various campuses to help engineering who are miserably failing to deliver on time. I was expected to replace a few engineers, learn the project in a day or two, finish the project as fast as possible. If you think that I need to work weekends and nights for this, you are mistaken :-). I worked only 8 hours and only 5 days per week in this role. I visited Pune, Bangalore, Chennai offices for this kind of adventures. I was also part of technical interview teams.

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  • 📧 santhosh dot thottingal at gmail dot com

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For my contributions to Malayalam language, I was honored with in 2019. Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India is in recognition of my contributions in the field of Malayalam language. The award, instituted in 2016, is given to the substantial contributions to languages such as Sanskrit, Persian, Arabi, Pali and Classical Oriya, Classical Kannada, Classical Telugu, and Classical Malayalam. This is given to young scholars in the . The Presidential award carries a certificate of honor, a memento and a cash prize of ₹1 lakh. These awards are announced once a year on the occasion of the Indian independence day on 15th August.

I also received Mathrubhasha Puraskaram 2019 from the , Kalady.

Currently I am working as Principal Software Engineer at Language Engineering team of . I work on MediaWiki language support, internationalization, localization, input methods for large number of languages in which Wikipedia exist, fonts, translation tools. , one of the machine translation system with largest language support - 250+ languages. I live at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. I work remotely. I joined Wikimedia Foundation in 2011 September 1st.

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From 2005 July 10 to July 2011, I worked at . This was my first job after graduating from engineering college. I mainly worked on , based projects at Infosys for clients like , (for Boeing Dreamliner), , and . When I was resigning, I was working in technology architecture group as junior architect.

Another interesting project I worked there was for . They wanted a single person with special project budget to work on experimental projects that are technically complex and time sensitive. I helped them to build their electronic component datasheet indexing and searching project using Apache Lucene and Solr.

For a short duration in 2010, I worked for . This was another assignment to help a team missing their deadlines to deliver. I visited Bangalore campus for three months. For that short period of time, I owned the email santhosh at apple.com :-)

I studied in state public schools near my village at Palakkad. After 10th standard, I went to , Mannarkkad for Pre-Degree. I did my Engineering(Computer Science) at under . Since I was from an economically backward family, I never had to pay education fee, even for my Engineering degree, thanks to .

- last updated on 2017

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Maharshi Badrayan Vyas Samman by the Hon. President of India
age group of 30 to 45 years
Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit
Wikimedia Foundation
I built the machine translation infrastructure of Wikipedia
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Boeing
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NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad
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Swathanthra Malayalam Computing.
Malayalam digital typography.
SMC website
an article in Malayalam Wikipedia