Sidharth Guglani
Senior Software Engineer at Wise
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSidharth Guglani is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with a decade-long focus on mobile and native UI frameworks, currently shaping payments infrastructure at Wise. He spent four years at Meta contributing to core Android UI projects like Litho and the cross-platform Yoga layout engine, improving baseline alignment and native bindings that affect Facebook, Instagram and React Native clients. Earlier at Hike Messenger he led performance, theming and HTTP framework initiatives for an app serving over 100 million users, and built shared React-native components used across services. Comfortable in C++, Java and mobile internals, Sidharth combines deep performance debugging experience with a knack for practical framework design and open-source maintenance work on high-profile repos such as facebook/yoga and react-native.
7 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
St. Xavier's SchoolBachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Information Technology at Indian Institute Of Information Technology
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Github Skills (27)
objective-c10
maintenance10
c-language10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
layout10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
flexbox10
component-kit10
code-cleanup10
swift10
layout-engine10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/yoga
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 137 commits, 12 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sidharth's commits primarily involve adding and modifying copyright headers to various files within the "facebook/yoga" repository. The changes include adding, correcting, and updating copyright notices in files across multiple languages and build systems. This indicates a focus on code maintenance, compliance, and ensuring proper licensing and attribution within the project.
followlayoutandroidupdatescross-platform
facebook/react-native
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
A framework for building native applications using React
Role in this project:Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:92 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sidharth primarily contributed to the React Native framework, specifically focusing on the Yoga layout engine. Their work included replacing default constructors with member assignments in core data structures like `YGStyle`, `YGLayout`, and `YGConfig`. They also added functionality to allow child nodes to influence parent baseline alignment, improving layout behavior. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the underlying native Yoga code, including the addition of getters and setters for style properties, such as flexWrap and flex, in the Java bindings, which enhanced the feature set.
reactnative-applicationsmobile-developmentreact-nativeandroid
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