Siddharta Govindaraj
Gen AI Trainer (Freelance) at PayPal
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolSiddharta Govindaraj is a versatile software engineer and trainer with 11+ years of experience helping teams across PayPal, Ford, and startups become dramatically more productive through hands-on coaching, curriculum design, and scalable self-learn content. He specializes in bridging full-stack engineering and modern ML/GenAI practices—teaching everything from frontend React and Python to RAG, agentic AI, and LLM fine-tuning—while adapting software engineering principles for AI systems. As founder of Silver Stripe Software and Playful Python and author of Test Driven Python Development, he combines product-building, content creation, and technical mentoring to close skill gaps quickly. At PayPal he reduced content development cycles from months to weeks and scaled a train-the-trainer program that reached 1500+ engineers with a 60+ NPS, showing a strong knack for operationalizing learning at enterprise scale. Known for pragmatic pedagogy, he often embeds platform-specific workflows into training so engineers can immediately ship in their real environments. Based in Chennai, he brings a rare mix of hands-on craftsmanship, instructional design, and enterprise program delivery.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics and Communication, BE, Electronics and Communication at University of MadrasPGDIT, Information Technology, PGDIT, Information Technology at IIIT, Bangalore
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Github Skills (47)
reselect10
react-redux10
nose10
redux-thunk10
movie9
python-development9
redux9
unit-test9
python8
python-requests8
tdd8
nosetests8
pyscript8
javascript8
unit-testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
siddhi/python-training
Aug 2015 - Aug 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
siddhi/movie-library
May 2019 - Dec 2022
Sample react-redux app for managing a movie library
Contributions:40 commits, 31 PRs, 37 pushes in 3 years 8 months
reactredux-thunkmoviereact-reduxreact-sample
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