Siddharth Gelera

Developer and Open Source Enthusiast specialising in web and tooling development

About

I've been a fullstack developer since 2017. I enjoy building tools, parsers (DSLs) and fixing existing broken codebases. I enjoy the chaos of a codebase for some weird reason

Majority of my professional work has been in and around solving web and web architechture problems. This includes building compliant,secure and scalable web apps, setting up automations for various tasks, managing development processes and guiding beginners

For specific skills, do refer to the Skills page

Online Presence / Contact

Website: https://reaper.is

GitHub: @barelyhuman

E-Mail: me@barelyhuman.dev

Professional Experience

NearForm

Work with OSS contributions from NearForm to various parts of the Node.js ecosystem Maintaining application at scale Making sure infrastructure design is optimal and fun to work with

Fountane

Managing teams, handling guidance, making sure the architecture and automations works and finally, get hands dirty with code.

Valuefy

Fintech is hard, number crunching, maintaing curation engines and handling wealth management based transactions all with the help of some code and making sure it worked

Cartisan

Worked with talented individuals on getting the simple car service and invoicing platform for the Indian market. This involved managing sequences of operations and avoiding race conditions, keep data clean, and refactoring some old code

RetailIO

Met my first set of mentors here, worked on the UI of 2 products. SuperTax and RetailIO, one with React and one with Angular respectively. The time spent was short due to various unforseen reasons but it was worth it. Made components and a tiny UI library for the above 2 products internally

HoppApp

Talk about getting lucky before even graduating and working as the Core/Founding frontend engineer for a startup. Built the Admin portal for a ride sharing app that HoppApp was building, learnt the basics of industrial standards for a Senior Developer at Oracle and experience that got me addicted to working with just startups.

Open Source Contributions

preact-island-plugins

Bundler plugins to be able to generate server and client code to write preact components as islands or partially hydrated server rendered components

preact-native

An attempt at creating an abstraction layer over the react native bridge to add in support for other web frameworks to be able to make use of the cross platform renderer

goblin.run

A simple service that allows you to build go lang binaries on the fly for the requested system. Gives CLI authors a easy way to provide their binaries to the end users.

alvu

The very static site generator powering this website and the resume. An attempt at building a scriptable static site generator that uses the simplicity of Lua to add programmatic computation at build time

jotai-form

A derivative of jotai state atoms to make it easier to work with forms

Zustand

A micro state management library for react, also easier to learn when compared to other alternatives

Jotai

Atom based state management for vanilla js and react based on treating primitive state as atoms

Valtio

Proxy based state handling for react and vanilla js. Makes state changes more natural as compared to the hooks

eslint-plugin-valtio

ESLINT plugin for valtio users to avoid making mistakes when working with proxy and snapshot based state

commitlog

A tool built for programmers who work with more than one language and would prefer a common versioning and changelog generation tooling

Ending Note

I am passionate about collaborating with open source companies and contributing to the development of impactful projects. As a minimalist, I believe in creating simple and efficient solutions that solve complex problems. I'm just an email away if you wish to discuss about potential opportunities or collaborations.

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