About me

Engineer by trade,
builder by nature

I'm Yegappan Sekar — a Senior Web Engineer based in Coimbatore, India. I've spent 3+ years at Cartrabbit building ecommerce tools used by thousands of stores worldwide.

At Cartrabbit, I lead web engineering on multiple products — including Retainful (email marketing automation), Afflr (affiliate marketing), WPLoyalty (points & rewards), and UpsellWP (upsells & cross-sells). These tools collectively run on tens of thousands of WooCommerce and Shopify stores.

My work sits at the intersection of product engineering, automation, and data systems. I'm as comfortable writing a WordPress plugin hook as I am architecting a Google Apps Script pipeline that processes 17,000 URLs overnight. I believe software should solve real problems, run reliably at 3 AM, and be maintainable by the next person.

Outside of plugins, I build internal automation tools — Shopify app detectors, bulk email verifiers, Chrome extensions for web scraping, and comprehensive data dashboards that replace hours of manual work with a single trigger.

When I'm not at a keyboard, I'm exploring how automation is reshaping ecommerce, and occasionally writing about it here on the blog.

Where I've worked

Experience

2025 — Present
Senior Web Engineer
Cartrabbit, Coimbatore

Core engineer across the Cartrabbit product suite. Led development of Retainful's email automation engine, built Yuko from scratch, and architected data pipelines for lead generation and customer analytics. Manage a portfolio of 10+ ecommerce websites and own the automation infrastructure that keeps them running.

2023 — 2024
Web Developer and Designer
Cartrabbit, Coimbatore

Core engineer across the Cartrabbit product suite. Led development of Retainful's email automation engine, built Yuko from scratch, and architected data pipelines for lead generation and customer analytics. Manage a portfolio of 10+ ecommerce websites and own the automation infrastructure that keeps them running.

2022 — 2023
Software Developer Intern
Cartrabbit, Coimbatore

Built custom WordPress themes, WooCommerce extensions, and REST API integrations for clients across ecommerce and SaaS. Developed deep expertise in WooCommerce hooks, custom database schemas, and WordPress plugin architecture.

Technical toolkit

Skills & Technologies

Backend & Platforms

PHP 8
WordPress
WooCommerce
Shopify
MySQL
REST APIs

Automation & Data

Google Apps Script
N8N
Web Scraping
Chrome Extensions
Google Sheets
Webhooks

Frontend & Tools

JavaScript
HTML/CSS
Git / GitHub
Linux / CLI
Email Automation
WP-CLI

Want to work together?

I'm open to consulting on ecommerce, automation, and plugin development.

Get in touch yegappans2910@gmail.com