Meet Team KnackForge
Founders
 Technical Director |
 Research Head |
 Solution Architect |
Yii
 Senior Developer - Yii Framework |
 PHP/ Yii Developer |
Drupal
 Drupal Developer |
 Junior Drupal Developer |
 Drupal Developer |
Design & User Experience
 Frontend Developer |
More about our team
Founders
A Technical enthusiast and one among the group of directors and founders of exciting Drupal startup, KnackForge Soft Solutions. Sivaji holds Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from Anna University. Sivaji's prime role is not only confined to Lead of Drupal team Chennai branch but also holds the accountability for Customer Relationship and Internal Quality Management.
Sivaji's ingress into KnackForge can be witnessed right from its genesis. His proficiency in Drupal made him the backbone of our Drupal Team which tends to prove his competence level. He gave impetus to his technical evangelism as a Google Summer of Code student. He worked on quiz module to improve its features and fixed several bugs along with other Drupal developers Matt Butcher, Falcon, Vegardjo and Turadg. Since then he has been an active member, contributor to the community in terms of writing patches to core and contributed modules.
He has been developing and maintaining a few contributed modules and themes in Drupal official website drupal.org. The most noticeable is the quiz module, which has more than 3000 installation till date. He had reviewed a few Drupal books for Packt including Drupal 7 Module Development and Drupal 7 theme development. His Drupal user account page can be found at http://drupal.org/user/328724. According to Sivaji "I believe human limitations are self imposed. In the unpredictable game of so called life; I consider bumblebee over the laws of aerodynamics."
A Software Engineer who has immense passion for Opensource technologies. Selvam, one among the group of directors and founders leads the Tanjore branch of KnackForge Soft Solutions and is responsible for leadership and strategic direction of the company.
With his intense expertization level in ERP and Web based Developments, Selvam travelled his career journey in the YII team as a PHP Developer. On Later part he involved himself in complicated developments with Drupal. He has been playing with Drupal, Solr ,Mahout has experience in integrating them for machine learning. KnackForge considers him as the one who has the ability to take challenges and solve them with great success.
Prior to his work in KnackForge, Selvam has a strong adroit sense with python and its concepts. He has a passion for Artificial Intelligence and involved himself in developing an AI game with C in college days. Apart from that he has a great ardour to code with Java. According to Selvam "Problems not only test our ability it also brings the best out of us".
Vannia is the technical lead for a handful of team at KnackForge and also one of the Founders. He specializes in analyzing a complex problem and providing a workable solution for the same.
His expertise ranges from processing a huge volume of data with efficient scripts to designing & building the core architecture for a relatively large, extensible Project.
He believes programming is an "Art" which requires that the developer is focused, ever improving & passionate about his work to be able to get optimal results.
Yii
A precocious Web Engineer who brings out various combinations of connoisseur in Web Development. Vishnu, one of the Senior Developers in KnackForge mainly accounts for Developing and Designing Site using YII Framework. Vishnu at times plays cameo with Drupal Development.
His peregrination to KnackForge had him packed up with enormous knowledge in Drupal and Web Development. Vishnu's technical vigor has no confinements, he is well known in KnackForge for his Mobile Site Redirection and Custom Mobile Themes. Apart from that he has a very strong comprehension about CodeIgnitor framework.
Right from his study days he had the affinity to deal with tough codings and hands-on with ease. He knows no abstain as he has been a part of jQuery, CSS, PHP, Drupal, HTML and Web Parsing. According to Vishnu "I always want to do what i think i cannot in Web Development"
An Engineer by profession and acumen by decision, Saranraj got hold of his Bachelors in Computer Science from Anna University. His prime role at KnackForge revolves around Development using Yii Framework. He indulges in custom code progression with PHP and at times deals with AJAX.
His career onset came from KnackForge as a Yii Developer. Saranraj from his professional inception has the intention to invite laborious task. With a awesome skill to learn things with apace, he has got into Yii Framework with much more ease. Saranraj has a strong cognizance to deal with Mobile application. He has been a part of so such seminars conducted by many Open source based clubs. According to Saranraj "The Web can deal with many things than what we think it can"
Drupal
A Computer Science Engineer who acquired Masters in Administration with specialization in Human Resource from Indian Institute of Management. Sabareesh is mainly responsible for developing custom Web applications using Drupal with other Web technologies. He also involves in custom PHP coding, Drupal theme development, theme customization and custom module development for Drupal.
He started his career in KnackForge as a Drupal Developer. In mean time he has self invited himself to play with jQuery and CSS. He considers Drupal as fathomless, as it teaches him something new in his day to day career. According to Sabareesh Drupal is the show stopper among the Content Management System.
He loves to work with applications that tend to test his integrity as a adroit. He had indulged himself in Mobile application development with QT framework for a long time and got certified by Nokia as a Official Qt Developer in 2011. To him challenges and vies are the two prime factors that brings the best out of one. Open source means a lot to him, as he had been with it for more than half a decade. According to Sabareesh "The Greatest is Never given, it is earned".
A venturesome Drupal Developer who has acquired his Masters with specialisation in Computer Application. Karalmax holds the key to Develop sites with Drupal. He at times ensures the Quality metrics of the product by involving himself in various levels of testing.
He traversed his career to KnackForge with a lusty background in Web Technologies. Karalmax's experience in ERP tools made him more adverse in Web site development. KnackForge considers him as one of the team players who can adapt to new trends in development at the earliest.
Karalmarx is proficient in Drupal, CSS, Testing, OpenERP and HTML. According to Karalmax "When you line for success then hard work is not option it’s necessary"
A stalwart Drupal Developer, who encomposses his Bachelors degree from Bharathidasan University in specializing Computer Science. The prime role focus of Narendran at KnackForge embraces Web Application Development using Drupal. His accomplishment also includes the trace of our Creativity department by involving in custom designs for Web Sites.
Narendran has been backed up by a enomours dexterity in PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML and JavaScript. Inspite of having a proficient skill in Joomla and Wordpress, he swifted his career into Drupal. His self involvement can never be stoped as, he at times indulges in our Quality Metrics Team by his feedbacks and testing reports.
He has a strong passion to explore every technology in the Web Domain and loves to work with the same. According to Narendran "If my mind can conceive it, My heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it!"
Design & User Experience
A audacious Web Designer who holds Masters Degree from Madras University in Information Technology. Vanitha holds the charge for our Creativity Department by Designing Banners, Icons and Front End Styles. She at times also takes guard to ensure the Quality metrics of Delivery by performing various levels of testing on the developed site.
She had a dream start to her career in KnackForge Soft Solution as a Web Designer. She exploited her gifted aptitude in designing to the best level to meet more than the requirements. Her proficiency in GIMP and ability to work with all our teams has got her a remarkable name in KnackForge Soft Solution.
Vanitha always has the affinity to try designs using all applications, her quest of knowledge in designing has not found a solution till date. She has attended International Level Seminar held at WCC regarding Analysis and Research. According to vanitha "Work shouldn't be hard if u think, plan and enjoy in what u do"
