Siddarthan Pandian
Software Engineer (Contract) at Stripe
India
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddarthan Pandian is a seasoned backend engineer with 11+ years of experience building scalable SaaS systems and distributed services, currently working as a contract Software Engineer at Stripe. He has driven major initiatives at Automattic—modernizing a 12-year-old codebase, architecting a fault-tolerant scheduler that enabled 3M+ daily shares for Jetpack Social, and designing encryption for 10M+ OAuth tokens after a security audit. Comfortable across the stack, he combines strong fundamentals with rapid learning to reduce duplication, accelerate monetization, and surface growth opportunities via data-driven analytics. Past roles show a consistent pattern of turning legacy monoliths into maintainable microservices, cutting cloud costs (e.g., replacing Cloudinary), and shipping operational tools that saved thousands. Based in India, he blends hands-on IC craft with occasional leadership stints—successfully stepping in as interim lead to reverse product declines while keeping an engineer-first approach.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Computer Science and Engineering at Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Tamil
Github Skills (6)
wordpress10
css10
php10
plugin10
javascript9
react8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Automattic/jetpack
Dec 2021 - Nov 2022
Security, performance, marketing, and design tools — Jetpack is made by WordPress experts to make WP sites safer and faster, and help you grow your traffic.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:539 reviews, 109 commits, 182 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Siddarthan primarily focused on enhancing the Jetpack plugin's user interface and functionality related to sharing features. They added CSS to hide specific elements (like share buttons, likes, and related posts) from the print view of posts. Additionally, the user removed outdated Facebook share counter code, refactored publicize connection URLs, and integrated the Publicize composer package. Their contributions also included work on a My Jetpack social card to improve user experience and integration.
reactexpertswordpressphpsecurity
spsiddarthan/spawn
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 244 pushes in 6 months
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