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SDE 2 at Ola Krutrim | Healthplix | Koo India

About

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience building high-performance, accessible web applications using modern JavaScript and TypeScript ecosystems. Expertise in scalable UI architecture, frontend system design, and rendering optimization, with a strong emphasis on accessibility standards (ARIA, WCAG) and cross-device consistency. Experienced in owning end-to-end product development as an individual contributor, from design to deployment, in performance-critical environments. SKILLS: Core: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Vue.js, Redux, Tailwind.css, SASS Tools/DevOps: Vite, Webpack, Git, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Docker, CI/CD pipelines Backend : Nodejs, Python, Parse, Firebase, RESTful APIs Testing: Jest, React Testing Library, Playwright Database: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL Mobile: React Native AI/Tools: Cursor, Claude code, LLM Chat Completions API, Prompt Engineering

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

codex

cursor

openai

Work experience

Software Development Engineer 2 at Ola, Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, ▶Led development of the Ola Maps Web SDK (18k installs, 400+ weekly downloads), delivering scalable web mapping capabilities and improving developer experience and performance; implemented automated release pipeline to publish npm package from private GitHub repository to public repository. ▶Built Street View like 360° map visualization in the Web SDK, enabling users to open immersive panoramic imagery directly from map interactions. ▶Extended the Kepler.gl visualization platform, integrated Ola Maps rendering, and deployed it as an internal geospatial analytics dashboard used by leadership for data-driven operational and business insights. ▶Developed multiple core platform features across the Ola Maps ecosystem, enhancing user experience and expanding mapping functionality. ▶Designed and implemented a centralized API health monitoring system, building both frontend dashboards and backend services to track availability, latency, and failures across internal APIs, enabling faster incident detection and debugging. ▶Automated CI/CD and release workflows across multiple applications using GitHub Workflows, standardizing builds and improving deployment consistency. ▶Collaborated with cross-functional teams (backend, mobile, product, data) to integrate new features and resolve technical challenges, ensuring stable performance across environments. ▶Contributed to the Ola Maps Data Editor (internal GIS tool) by adding support for POI and road creation/editing workflows and distance measurement tools.Implementing full keyboard-shortcut navigation, improving POI coding efficiency and reducing dependency on mouse/trackpad ▶Led the Community POI feature, enabling review and management of user-submitted POIs from iOS/Android apps, including validation, editing, approval, and rejection workflows.

Software Development Engineer at HealthPlix, Feb 2023 - Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, HealthPlix is an AI-powered Electronic Medical Records (EMR) platform designed to enhance healthcare efficiency and quality ▶ Played a key role in the EMR product transformation by implementing a micro frontend architecture, which included developing offline capabilities with WatermelonDB and cache management systems to enhance user experience and performance, currently utilized by over 9k+ users. ▶ Developed frontend-only solution for generating, rendering and printing PDFs supporting 14 different languages and all major devices/browsers that have generated 4M+ prescriptions. ▶ Implemented an online consultation module integrating audio and video calls directly within the EMR application which is used by 6k+ users. ▶ Implemented Server-Sent Events (SSE) for web app notifications to enhance real-time user engagement.

Software Development Engineer at Koo India, Apr 2022 - Feb 2023 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Koo is a Indian microblogging, social networking and a twitter alternative app. ▶ Optimized the app’s main feed page by implementing component-level code splitting and introducing dynamic visual elements such as animations and loaders, which enhanced user experience and increased Daily Active Users (DAU) by 50%. ▶ Worked on key modules from scratch, including CreateKoo, user profiles and vouchers and rewards system, enhancing platform functionality and user engagement by 40%. ▶ Developed a custom text editor using contenteditable for Koo, featuring syntax highlighting for hashtags, mentions and links and tackeld various problems related with contenteditable and DOM calculations regarding the same. ▶ Led the development of the threads feature ▶ Responsible for maintaining Koo’s Admin and internal analytics dashboard

Full Stack Engineer at Hybrowlabs Technologies, Aug 2020 - Mar 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune Division, Maharashtra, India, Hybrowlabs is a Software Development Company specializing in end-to-end product development using modern, cloud-scale technologies. ▶ Took ownership of projects, developed and launched multiple web and mobile applications, managed architectural decisions, data modeling, server setups, and deployments. ▶ Led frontend development for several enterprise products, delivering pixel-perfect user interfaces and ensuring high-quality user experience. ▶ Integrated serverless computing features using Parse and Firebase to enhance application scalability and performance. ▶ Enhanced open source libraries by developing new features to meet project requirements.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Information Technology, Shri Sant Gajanan Maharaj College of Engineering, Shegaon

Public links

github: https://github.com/siddhikotak

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/siddhikotak