Santhosh Vaiyapuri
Senior React Native Developer
Almere, Flevoland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSanthosh Vaiyapuri is a Senior React Native Developer with 12 years of experience bridging embedded systems rigor and modern mobile app engineering, currently advancing Stream’s React Native Video and Chat SDKs. With an M.Sc. in Embedded Systems from TU Eindhoven and early work on ASML control and metrology software, he brings a systems-minded approach to mobile architecture and performance. He has led end-to-end mobile features at Gaiyo—payments, bookings and background location services—and contributed notable open-source fixes to Stream’s chat SDK and algorithmic solutions to the popular "Cracking the Coding Interview" repository. Based in Almere, Netherlands, Santhosh balances practical Android SDK expertise with React Native UI/SDK contributions and a knack for optimizing real-world UX edge cases like Giphy attachments. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, debugging complex platform interactions, and shipping reliable cross-platform experiences.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Embedded Systems, Master of Science (MS) Embedded Systems at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communication, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics & Communication at St. Joseph's College Of Engineering
English, Tamil
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Github Skills (27)
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
careercup/ctci
Dec 2014 - Mar 2015
Cracking the Coding Interview, 5th Edition
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 2 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Santhosh contributed to the "Cracking the Coding Interview" repository by implementing and testing solutions to coding interview questions in Go. They focused on algorithms and data structures, as demonstrated by their solutions for unique character detection, string reversal, permutation checking, and string compression. The user also refactored code for clarity and optimized code.
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GetStream/stream-chat-react-native
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
💬 React-Native Chat SDK ➜ Stream Chat. Includes a tutorial on building your own chat app experience using React-Native, React-Navigation and Stream
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 375 reviews, 194 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Santhosh primarily focused on enhancing the React Native UI components within the Stream Chat React Native SDK, particularly addressing the Giphy attachment functionality. They added support for customizable Giphy image sizes, ensuring that images would display correctly. They also implemented a fix for the giphy attachments to show a background for the long press and fixed some issues with the attachment picker and the channel preview message update.
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