Sidhant Goel
Lead Engineer at Freo
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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RockstarSidhant Goel is a Lead Engineer based in Bengaluru with 11 years of experience building backend systems and driving platform-level improvements across startups and product companies. He has held senior roles at Freo, Razorpay, and Appsmith, where his hands-on work included significant refactoring and migration efforts—most notably renaming and migrating "Organization" to "Workspace" across Appsmith’s platform and database migrations. His background blends research (IIIT-Delhi), product engineering, and architecture, reflecting an ability to move between prototyping, system design, and production hardening. Comfortable in both leadership and individual-contributor roles, he has founded a product startup and consulted on drone technology, signaling a practical entrepreneurial bent and cross-domain curiosity. Known for pragmatic, low-risk migrations and clean refactors, he focuses on maintaining functionality while evolving platform abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (20)
database-migrations10
data-migration10
back-end-development10
java10
javas10
spring-boot10
database-migration10
refactoring10
testing9
postgresql9
git8
low-code7
macos6
android-source6
xcode6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
appsmithorg/appsmith
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:171 reviews, 155 commits, 94 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Sidhant's contributions primarily revolve around migrating existing code and data structures within the Appsmith platform. They focused on renaming "Organization" references to "Workspace" across various Java files, repositories, and service implementations, demonstrating a significant refactoring effort. This included updating database migrations to reflect these changes, such as copying data and creating indexes. The user also made changes to the test classes related to organization services by replacing with workspace services, indicating a focus on ensuring the smooth transition of existing functionality.
custom-internaldeveloper-toolslow-code-frameworkcrudinternal-tools
secureboot-io/escboot-firmware
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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