About
I’m Sid, a web-focused product engineer, who cares about user experience, accessibility, and performance.
My relationship with the web began 17 years ago as a self-taught hobbyist, which has since evolved into a career spent building with the platform and building the platform itself.
For the past two years at the Interledger Foundation, I’ve been helping architect a new economic layer for the internet.
As a product engineer, I lead development on the Web Monetization browser extension and build the tools that help publishers get paid with Open Payments, while simultaneously working under the hood supporting the Chromium’s native Web Monetization implementation. As I tend to dive too deep into the product ecosystem, I also help define the specifications to ensure Web Monetization becomes a permanent, open W3C standard.
Previously, over 2.5+ years, I’ve been a founding engineer at Monetized.link (and Keyosk.co), leading the full-stack development of a no-code paywall platform.
I owned the entire development lifecycle, including designing complex features like multi-tenant architecture, providing insights to creators and admins, and integrating Stripe & Web3 (Ethereum) protocols. Built with SvelteKit/TailwindCSS/TypeScript for a smooth user experience, Firebase for backend power, ElasticSearch and Redis for fast search, and Google Cloud for a scalable foundation.
Even more history: I’ve been building with the web since nearly 2009 and decided to take on software development professionally in 2016.
In 2018, I was a Google Summer of Code scholar for Mozilla. Since then, I’ve continued to be an active contributor in the open-source community, where I focused on bringing new tools and services widely used at the W3C. I presented my W3C tooling-related work at W3C TPAC 2019 in Fukuoka, Japan. In 2020, I was awarded the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) award to work on the same project.
Later, I was selected as the first technical scholar by Grant for the Web, where I prototyped WebMonetization API in Firefox.
To balance out what used to be a hobby and is now work, I find it refreshing to unplug and connect with nature through hiking, stargazing, or tending to my rooftop garden. You can ask me to go on a hiking trip anytime!
PS: You may see me referred to as Sudhanshu Vishnoi in some places – that’s my legal name.