Siddesh Pillai
Senior Software Engineer at Esri
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSiddesh Pillai is a Senior Software Engineer and engineering team lead at Esri with 12 years of experience building cross-platform mapping and storytelling products from mobile SDKs to end-to-end apps. He drives ArcGIS StoryMaps architecture and delivery, applying modern Android patterns (Jetpack Compose), feature-flagged A/B experimentation, and integrated Firebase tooling to ship robust, measurable features. His background spans ML-enabled features—building TensorFlow CNN/ResNet models and on-device translation with MLKit—to cross-platform UI work using Compose, SwiftUI, and .NET MAUI. An active contributor to Esri’s open-source Android mapping projects, Siddesh blends deep platform knowledge with product-focused prototyping and mentoring of junior engineers. He also has hands-on international product experience from RIT research in Rwanda, reflecting a practical user-centered approach beyond core engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at Rochester Institute of TechnologyAnna University, Chennai
English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi
Github Skills (5)
javas10
compass10
ui-design10
android10
java10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Esri/maps-app-android
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Your organisations mapping app built with the runtime SDK for android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:31 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Siddesh primarily contributed to the Android mobile application, focusing on UI and feature enhancements. They added functionality for compass navigation and location tracking, along with modifications to the user interface elements such as floating buttons and the action bar. Their work included changes to the compass UI and its integration with map rotation, and also involved refactoring the UI elements.
organisationsruntimeandroidsdkmapping
SidoPillai/qt-notification
Dec 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:18 commits, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.