👋 Hello! I'm Sijo

I lead the SaaS Products team at Gadgeon in Kochi. Since May 2025, I’ve driven our move to React 19. We tore out a mountain of Angular, rewrote over 100,000 lines, and I’m still waiting for my wrist to forgive me.

I run code reviews and knowledge-sharing sessions so everyone reads from the same sheet, not just hammering keys and hoping. I brought in AI tools, Claude Code and Windsurf, set real ground rules, and ran the workshops myself. Output rose 10 percent. That’s the only reason my colleagues tolerate my table-flip moments.

Before Gadgeon, I led the frontend squad at Diagnal Technologies in London. I gutted legacy React, refactored into functional components, and watched the app leap. Load times dropped 30 percent. Overall performance climbed 25 percent.

Guiding teams across continents made for interesting timezone math. It also earned a quick promotion to Front-End Lead. Regular one-on-ones and code reviews cut buggy commits and lifted productivity by a third. On SEO, I shifted us to server-side rendering, cleaned up meta tags, and got our apps climbing search rankings by 50 percent.

I started out at 7th Pillar Ventures, asking one question: why add bells and whistles when the basics barely work? That stuck. Nobody cares how clever your fix is if the thing doesn’t run well.

These days I bounce between debating anime plot twists and chasing CSS edge cases. Ernakulam suits me fine. Good internet, good food, and a few developers always ready to gripe about state management over coffee.

I blog because explaining something is usually the only way I understand it myself.

Here’s What Fills My Days

I build SaaS platforms at Gadgeon. At Diagnal, I kept OTT apps and video players sane across a mess of devices. When JavaScript gives me déjà vu, I sneak in a Go tutorial. Off the laptop, I jog, though my running app wishes I’d stop lying about my pace.

Tech Stack and Other Fixations

const Sijo = {
  frontend: ['React', 'JavaScript', 'CSS (minor dark art)'],
  current_obsession: 'Micro-interactions behaving the way I actually intend',
  past_adventures: ['Healthcare apps', 'Food delivery', 'Telecom solutions'],
  learning: "Go (just to keep life spicy)",
  workouts: ['Running', 'Trekking', 'Debug marathons']
};

Some Facts They Don’t Print on CVs

I lose sleep over animation that drops a frame. I’ll get carried away over code structure or whether a manga arc flopped. If you need someone to overcomplicate a problem, I’m your person. My explanations help, or so I’m told.

Manga & Anime: The Real Priorities

The list is long: Fairy Tail, One Piece, Solo Leveling, Bleach, Katekyo Hitman Reborn, Haikyu, and a rotating cast of others. Latest binge: “I Was Mistaken as a Monstrous Genius Actor,” which hasn’t run out of twists yet. “The Regressed Mercenary’s Machinations” is still going strong. I’m around chapter 175.

Trade me anime picks or debugging tips, and I’m all ears. If you catch me between browser restarts.