Santhosh Kuma
Principal Full Stack Engineer in Singapore. I lead UI platforms for industrial IoT and steer engineering work across teams.
- Building since
- 2007
- Now
- Principal Engineer
- Led
- Web teams, onshore + offshore
Experience
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2024 — now
Principal Full Stack Engineer · Emerson
Leading the gateway UI revamp to meet CRA requirements. Headed the Plantweb Insight platform UI across teams, moved it to micro-frontends, built a Figma-to-React design system and rolled out AI dev workflows.
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2021 — 2024
Lead Web Engineer · Lomotif
Led the web team, including contract and offshore developers. Set technical direction and owned the dev, staging and production workflow.
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2012 — 2020
Principal Full-Stack Engineer · Gift Management Asia
Built core modules, ETL workflows and APIs in R&D. Shipped 20 proof-of-concept apps, ran 15 web servers and improved tooling and process efficiency by 60%.
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2007 — 2012
Senior Developer, Web Designer/Developer · Mashroom, Brand Rich, freelance
- TypeScript
- React
- Angular
- Next.js
- Node.js
- Micro-frontends
- Design systems
- Docker
- AWS
- Azure DevOps
- BSc (Hons) Computer Science, Oxford Brookes
After hours
Outside work, I ship real products for real users: my family.
VajraOS
A household app platform: family roles, linked households, shared apps and an AI-planned daily agenda.
Next.js · Supabase · pgvector · VercelCommute
Route planning with live Singapore bus arrivals, scheduled ride watches and trips you can share.
LTA DataMall · OneMapJotter
Capture anything by text, voice, photo or email. Each evening AI turns it into tomorrow's top three, with a short brief.
AI agents · Google Calendar · ResendWriting
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