Aryan Shridhar is a software engineer based in Bengaluru with six years of experience building user-facing web and desktop applications, currently working at Text Blaze. A VIT computer science undergraduate and active open-source contributor, he has delivered front-end improvements and tooling work for prominent projects like Zulip and Electron Fiddle through two GSoC engagements. He specializes in React, Electron, Django/Flask, and full-stack development, with hands-on experience migrating build systems, tightening renderer-to-main process boundaries in Electron, and restoring test coverage after large refactors. His contributions span both UI/UX polish—improving tooltips, popovers and multiselects—and deeper architecture work such as moving APIs to Redux and replacing heavy dependencies like moment.js. Comfortable in fast-moving product teams and mentorship roles (Outreachy co-mentor), he combines pragmatic engineering with an open-source mindset and a knack for reclaiming maintainability during rewrites. Notably, his work on Electron Fiddle involved bundler migration and core refactors that streamlined the app’s front-end integration.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
:electron: 🚀 The easiest way to get started with Electron
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:40 reviews, 15 commits, 16 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Aryan primarily contributed to the Electron Fiddle project by fixing bugs and refactoring UI-related components. They addressed issues such as resetting the Gist URL in the address bar, adding an "OK" button to a modal, and disabling the right-click context menu in the settings. The user also refactored the code to integrate the fiddle-core, further improving the application's front-end functionality. Their work demonstrates proficiency in React and Electron.
Zulip server and web application. Open-source team chat that helps teams stay productive and focused.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:111 reviews, 106 commits, 78 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Aryan primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Zulip application. Their work focused on improving the responsiveness and usability of tooltips and popovers, particularly for message reactions and color pickers. They addressed UI/UX issues, fixed bugs related to keyboard shortcuts and dropdown elements, and refactored several templates for improved maintainability. They also updated the project's dependencies by replacing moment.js with date-fns.
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