Sid Vishnoi

Senior Full-Stack Engineer

sid@sidvishnoi.com
github.com/sidvishnoi
linkedin.com/in/sudhanshu-vishnoi

Product-focused engineer, 7+ years shipping software; remote and async. Leading Web Monetization at Interledger Foundation. Focused on accessibility, UX, and performance. Shipping faster with AI, carefully.

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Work Experience

Interledger Foundation - Full-Stack Developer

  • Own the Web Monetization browser extension, the reference implementation of the spec
  • Develop algorithms for cross-currency micropayments
  • Collaborate with external engineers at Igalia to bring native support to Chromium
  • Build embeddable publisher tools and payment systems that use Open Payments
  • Track feature usage with PostHog; build privacy-conscious analytics for publishers
  • Write technical articles about Web Monetization and act as an editor for the WICG specification

Monetized - Founding Engineer

  • Built monetized.link / keyosk.co, a multi-tenant no-code paywall platform for publishers, end-to-end
  • Developed content editors in SvelteKit as a lightweight CMS with extensible, reusable post types
  • Implemented sales dashboard and payments infrastructure: Stripe, creator payouts, Web3 support
  • Managed GCP microservices; monitored errors with Sentry, logs with ElasticSearch

Grant for the Web - Technical Scholar

  • Built a native Web Monetization prototype in Firefox, shaping the WICG spec
  • Picked up Gecko's C++ codebase to work across the core browser engine and the extensions API

Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) Program

  • Core maintainer of ReSpec, the publication system used to author W3C standards
  • Shipped new features, performant APIs, improved CLI, overhauled the project's documentation

Chegg - Software Development Engineer Intern

  • Built UI for Chegg Prep and internal tools spanning ticket automation, LDAP, and API integrations
  • Improved CheggIndia.com's performance (from 4s load to 200ms)

Mozilla - Google Summer of Code

  • Developed new features in ReSpec, focused on UX, automation, and maintainability
  • Implemented automatic cross-referencing capability, now extensively used by W3C specifications

Education

Masters in Computer Applications

University of Delhi

B.Sc. Physics (H)

University of Delhi

Skills