Santhosh Thottingal
Principal Software Engineer, Language Engineering, Wikimedia foundation. Typeface designer
- Role
- Principal Software Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
- Location
- Palakkad, KL, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Santhosh Thottingal
Seasoned Software Engineer with 20 years of experience specializing in language computing. Renowned digital typeface designer recognized for innovative Malayalam script typefaces. Combines technical expertise with unique aesthetic vision to develop breakthrough language technologies for complex scripts. Architected and deployed multilingual language tools reaching millions of users Built language technology infrastructure for low-resource languages using open source solutions Developed sustainable developer communities around language computing initiatives Created digital typefaces with exceptional aesthetic sensibility for complex scripts Pioneered Malayalam language computing tools used by hundreds of thousands daily Contributed to academic research with multiple publications and recognition as a thought leader in the field
Experience
Principal Software Engineer
Aug 2019 — Present
Education
NSS College of Engineering
Bachelor's degree(B Tech), Computer Science
2001 — 2005
MES Kalladi College Mannarkkad
PreDegree, Science
1999 — 2002
Skills
- Ajax
- Php
- Design Patterns
- Jquery
- Web Applications
- Fonts
- Computational Linguistics
- Java Enterprise Edition
- Type Design
- Javascript
- Xml
- Ubuntu
- Typography
- Git
- Subversion
- Bash
- Mysql
- Linux
- Open Source
- Postgresql
- Python
- Agile Methodologies
- Java
- Ruby
- Shell Scripting
- Perl
- Apache
- Unix
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