Siddarth Kumar
DevOps Engineer at Status
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolSiddarth Kumar is a DevOps engineer and full-stack mobile developer with six years of experience building and shipping production-grade software from Mumbai. He currently runs production deployments and on-call rotations at Status, where he built benchmarking infrastructure for an Ethereum light client, migrated fleets to nftables, and led a macOS/Xcode CI upgrade. Previously he led a risky React Native upgrade (0.63→0.73), built device-pairing and sharing features, and shifted heavy work to a Go backend to keep UI threads responsive. He’s an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Facebook’s React Native—improving codegen, parser type resolution, and test quality—and has deep practical expertise with Nix and cross-platform build systems. Colleagues rely on him as the go-to troubleshooter for mobile and desktop build issues, and he pairs hands-on debugging with a knack for shipping pragmatic UX fixes across devices.
6 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
parser10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
ui-design10
codegen10
uid10
parsing10
front-end-development10
parse10
android10
mobile10
react10
flow-control9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
status-im/status-mobile
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
a free (libre) open source, mobile OS for Ethereum
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)Contributions:932 reviews, 74 commits, 403 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Siddarth primarily contributed to the mobile application's UI, addressing layout and display issues within the Status mobile app. Their work focused on fixing display issues, such as overlapping text and image overflow, and improving the layout of UI components for better user experience on different devices, specifically iPhones. They also refactored components, such as copyable text, to accept and modify background color and improved component rendering related to images.
ethereumwalletiosmobilemessenger
facebook/react-native
Jan 2023 - May 2024
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Siddarth primarily contributed to the React Native codegen system, refactoring and enhancing its codebase. Their work involved extracting and moving shared logic (like `extendsForProp` and `getEventArgument`) to common modules, improving code reusability. They also added and implemented the `getResolvedTypeAnnotation` and `getProps` functions within the parser, streamlining type resolution and component property handling. Furthermore, the user worked on code quality by converting tests to Kotlin.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
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