Sidu Ponnappa
Bengaluru/Singapore, Indonesia
Summary
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SeniorSidu Ponnappa is a seasoned technology founder and CEO, currently leading realfast, an AI-native Salesforce implementation partner that uses AI agents to accelerate Salesforce deployments and ROI. Realfast is backed by PeakXV Partners (formerly Sequoia India & SEA) and RTP Global, signaling strong early-growth backing. He previously founded C42 Engineering, which was acquired by Gojek in 2015, and then served as Managing Director, Gojek India, and on the board of the group's parent, contributing to rapid regional expansion and data-driven product delivery. At GoTo Group, he held senior leadership roles including Head of Data Engineering and SVP Internal Products, guiding multiple product initiatives across India during a period of rapid scale. An active investor and community builder, he serves as Angel Investor for a broad portfolio of startups and as Trustee of the Emerging Technology Trust, championing open-source events like RubyConf India and DevOps Days India. Based in Singapore with 18 years of global engineering leadership, he combines hands-on software craftsmanship with strategic leadership and ongoing open-source contributions to projects like Opal and CruiseControl.rb.
18 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
arraylist10
compiler10
javascript10
compiler-compiler10
documentations10
javascripts10
rubyspec10
documentation10
compilers10
ruby10
git9
bazaar8
ui-design8
nodejs4
browser3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtworks/cruisecontrol.rb
Jun 2009 - Jul 2009
CruiseControl for Ruby. Keep it simple.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Sidu primarily contributed to the documentation and UI of the CruiseControl.rb project. They updated the documentation to include links and information about the project, including a live demo, download links, and community resources. Furthermore, the user made changes related to integrating source code management tools like Bazaar and fixing broken links, demonstrating familiarity with the project's build and contribution processes. They also bumped up the version number.
keeprubycruisecontrolmrubysketchup
opal/opal
May 2015 - Jun 2015
Ruby ♥︎ JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 14 PRs, 10 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Sidu primarily contributed to the Ruby implementation within the Opal project. They focused on enhancing the corelib of the Ruby to JavaScript compiler by implementing and refining Array methods, specifically `values_at`, `rotate`, `rotate!`, and `permutation`. Additionally, they addressed RubySpec test failures related to array functionalities, refactoring and updating specs. The work involved directly manipulating JavaScript code snippets and understanding Ruby's interaction with JavaScript.
jsv8-javascript-enginebrowserjavascriptruby
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