Hi, I'm Sudhanshu

Staff Android Engineer.

@ Nextdoor · Building for 40M+ neighbors

Wildlife & landscape photographer

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Sudhanshu Siddh

Career

Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Nextdoor

Oct 2024 – Present
  • Led project to optimize Nextdoor Feed scroll performance, designed new architecture that improved scroll speed by 40% and reduced Time to Interactive by 20%
KotlinJetpack ComposeAndroid SDKPerformance

Senior Software Engineer

Nextdoor

May 2021 – Sep 2024
  • Pioneered migration of Nextdoor's newsfeed and search to Jetpack Compose, resulting in 4% surge in scroll depth and revenue boost
  • Enhanced Android platform DX by introducing Danger CI, detekt, and ktfmt
  • Built automation scripts for hassle-free generation of new Android modules
KotlinJetpack ComposeAndroid SDKA/B Testing

Senior Android Engineer

Ridecell

Feb 2019 – Apr 2021
  • Code owner for Carsharing Android SDK powering Ridecell's apps and customer-built apps
  • Integrated third-party BLE hardware libraries to perform vehicle operations (lock, unlock, ignition) via mobile
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Mobile Application Developer

sunapsis, Indiana University

Sep 2016 – Feb 2019
  • Led development of white-label cross-platform mobile apps using Flutter for 400,000+ international students
  • Published open-source conference apps for sunapsis Users Conference 2018
FlutterDartAndroidiOS

IT Analyst

Caterpillar India Pvt Ltd

Jul 2013 – Jun 2016
  • Developed EDI transaction maps on IBM Sterling Integrator
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Work

Featured Projects

Nextdoor

Feed Performance Optimization

Designed new feed architecture that improved scroll speed by 40% and reduced Time to Interactive by 20% for 40M+ users.

KotlinComposeArchitecturePerformance

Nextdoor

Jetpack Compose Migration

Pioneered migration of Nextdoor's newsfeed and search to Jetpack Compose, resulting in a 4% surge in scroll depth and measurable revenue impact.

Jetpack ComposeKotlinAndroid

Ridecell

Carsharing Android SDK

Code owner for white-labeled Carsharing SDK powering multiple Android apps. Integrated BLE hardware for vehicle lock/unlock/ignition via mobile.

KotlinBLESDKAndroid

Open Source

Vue Embed Gist Plugin ↗

Published open-source VueJS plugin to embed GitHub Gists in Vue applications on NPM, averaging 50+ downloads/month.

Vue.jsTypeScriptNPMOpen Source

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Education

MS, Computer Science

Indiana University, Bloomington · 2019 · GPA 3.86

B.Tech, Information Technology

SRM University, Chennai · 2013 · GPA 3.71