Sidharth Vinod
Founder at 10x Minds
Kochi, Kerala, India
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Top SchoolSidharth Vinod is a pragmatic founder and full-stack engineer with 10 years of experience building and shipping web-scale systems, developer tools, and DevOps automation from Kochi, India. Equally comfortable writing Java/Node/Python servers, crafting Vue/Svelte UIs, or scripting CI/CD and Kubernetes deployments, he blends hands-on implementation with product-minded engineering. He’s a founding engineer at Mermaid Chart and recently launched 10x Minds, bringing startup rigor and enterprise experience from roles at Oracle and as CTO of TurgenSec. An active open-source contributor, he has improved test automation and CI reporting in high-profile projects like Microsoft Playwright and refactored core modules in mermaid-js, showing a knack for reducing flakiness and improving developer workflows. Known for choosing the right tool for the job, he pair practical simplicity (sometimes a bash script) with deeper system-level fixes that make teams more productive.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Government Engineering College, ThrissurHigher Secondary Computer Science, Higher Secondary Computer Science at Vijayagiri Public School
Hindi, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
e2e-testing10
github-ci10
javascript10
docker10
deploying10
software-design10
back-end-development10
e2e-test10
testing10
typescript10
test-reporting10
dockers10
refactor10
automation10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
mermaid-js/mermaid
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Generation of diagrams like flowcharts or sequence diagrams from text in a similar manner as markdown
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1002 reviews, 793 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sidharth primarily refactored code and improved modularity. They migrated the mermaid-parser package and converted the flowDB to TypeScript, which suggests back-end development expertise. These changes involve refactoring core modules and dependencies within the repository.
diagramsflowchartssequencesequence-diagramssimilar
microsoft/playwright
Oct 2021 - Oct 2021
Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 7 commits, 14 PRs in 3 days
Contributions summary:Sidharth primarily contributed to enhancing the test automation framework within the Playwright repository. They focused on adding error position details to the JSON report, improving the test output for debugging, and implementing a GitHub Actions reporter. Further work included fixing a spelling mistake, ensuring the correct output of file paths and annotations in the reports, and reducing flakiness in a GitHub reporter test. These changes aimed to improve reporting, debugging capabilities, and integration with CI/CD systems.
web-testingchromiumtesting-toolsbrowser-automationfirefox
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