# Sidd Sridharan > Software Engineer at Roblox Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/siddsridharan Full stack and AI productivity engineer. I build AI productivity tools, frontend UI/infra, backend APIs, CI/CD pipelines, and backend infra with a focus on performance and security. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Roblox Jan 2025 – Present I build Web infrastructure and products for create.roblox.com. • Leading AI productivity tooling development for Creator org (200+ eng) • Leading performance engineering & product development on DevForum (devforum.roblox.com) • Led xfn effort to build internal search tooling for user-generated content • Built CI observability dashboards, automated notifications for to route issues to relevant engineers • Reduced alert noise in Sentry (250k events/month -> 1k) • Improved E2E test timings by 90% (1h -> 5m), end-to-end prod CI/CD timings by 60% (40m -> 16m) • Contributed to Web design system architecture, underpinning all of Roblox's Web properties ### Software Engineer @ Roblox Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area I led development on games & infrastructure used for education and evaluating incoming candidates. I shipped two games. • Led team of engineers to build Roblox games (Lua, Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript) for internal use: • Roblox Office (2K+ users; sophisticated metaverse office collaboration tool) • Manager L&D (100+ users; visual novel for training managers supporting scripted and LLM-driven scenarios) • Implemented testing infrastructure, audio/video asset management, CI/CD automations, infrastructure-as-code, cloud security/CNAPP for systems serving 20K+ users • Contributed upstream to internal Lua ecosystem (design systems, package management) used by products affecting 380MM+ users • Led xfn collaboration across team (product, visual design, 3D design, game design, data science, eng) • Mentored 10+ junior engineers, interns who now lead various product areas • Built custom low-code tools for non-technical peers ### Software Engineer @ Wealthfront Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Web Infrastructure team lead. Worked on multiple high-visibility feature teams (Wealthfront.com website, signup optimization, banking products, investing products) • Re-architected Wealthfront.com w/ Next.js + Tailwind. Worked closely with designers, engineers, and marketing. Improved load times by 5x. • Engineered a design system and performance philosophy for Wealthfront.com, which continues to be used by a team of 10+ engineers, designers, and product managers. • Founded, interviewed, staffed, and mentored a new team of 3 engineers to maintain our new marketing website. • Wrote documentation and proposals to replace aging infrastructure and improve codebase health. • Led large-scale internal service migration across 12 backend and frontend teams. • Taught a "Linux Fundamentals" course within the company. • Architected and built mobile-friendly investment portfolio customization UI. • Built back-end & front-end tooling for alerting, monitoring, testing, and diagnosing issues with third-party vendors. ### Software Engineer @ Grove Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area (Acquired by Wealthfront) Web tech lead. Grove was a financial planning service that offers high-quality financial advice by pairing software with CFPs (Certified Financial Planners). I worked with a small engineering team to build products for clients, and tools for in-house financial planners to generate high quality, no-nonsense advice. • Architected and built ​hellogrove.com​, focusing on speed and responsive design. Built a bespoke CSS framework to handle our new brand identity. • Converted our multi-page React app to a snappy, responsive SPA • Built REST APIs with Flask & SQLAlchemy to support web/mobile apps. • Worked with third-party vendors like Yodlee to integrate with banking institutions. • Worked closely with marketing to experiment and iterate on product offerings and landing pages. • Improved signup conversions by building a tracking plan, instrumenting our properties, and conducting experiments (A/B tests, targeted advertising) with marketing tools like Segment, Google Tag Manager, and Amplitude. • Wrote various integrations for Salesforce (Apex), MailChimp, and Zapier to automate CRM. • Developed our engineering interviewing strategy, interviewed several eng and non-eng candidates. ### Software Engineer @ Dokkio Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Mateo, CA Worked with a small team to build a product that organizes your content found across Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Gmail, etc. • Built reusable component library to improve product consistency and development speed. • Built cloud-based development environments w/ Webpack, Ansible, CloudFormation, and EC2. • Wrote custom GraphQL compiler to improve client-side and server-side performance. • Built custom, high-performance React data-table components supporting selection, sorting, and filtering. * Built custom search engine end-to-end with ElasticSearch, Redis, PostgreSQL, and a rich interface with ecommerce-like filtering capabilities. • Built API gateway and OAuth flows to manage unauthorized vs authorized requests. • As an early engineer, hired, mentored, and onboarded new engineers. Grew eng team from 3 to 7. ### Software Engineer @ Social High Rise Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Chico, California Rebuilt my internship project into a full-fledged CRM. Allowed us to execute administrative tasks on hundreds of social media profiles through our app using OAuth. Helped us dramatically scale our company's throughput, since most of the work was automated. Hired engineers, contractors to increase pace of feature development. ### Software Development Intern @ Social High Rise Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Chico, California Created a short-term and long-term software roadmap. Built software to automate data entry (scraping stats from social media dashboards) Built a web application to generate reports for each client by aggregating data from various APIs (Facebook, Yelp, Twitter, Google+, Foursquare). ### Full-Stack Web Developer @ Self-Employed Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Engineered and implemented PHP + MySQL solutions for small (law firms) to large businesses (multistate banking institutions). Back-ends utilized WordPress, ExpressionEngine, and custom solutions depending on client needs. I built eCommerce sites, responsive single-page applications, landing pages, campaign microsites. I also consulted for systems administration, and performed security audits for clients. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science California State University, Chico ### Associate of Science (A.S.) in Computer and Information Sciences, General Folsom Lake College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sidd-sridharan-384a6a77 - Portfolio: http://sidd.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/siddsridharan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/siddsridharan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-31