Ola Maps Web SDK
18k+ installs
Led the web SDK, release automation, street-view-like experiences, and internal geospatial tooling.
SK.
Bangalore, India
5 years in web
Siddhi Kotak · Frontend Engineer
Thoughtful frontend for products that feels calm, fast, and deeply considered.
I'm Siddhi Kotak, a frontend engineer who enjoys turning complex products into interfaces that feel effortless to use. Over the past 5 years I've worked across geospatial platforms, healthcare EMRs, social apps, and enterprise tools with React, TypeScript, and modern web stacks.
I'm at my best on products that need both sharp product judgment and solid engineering underneath. I enjoy building from scratch, untangling difficult UI problems, and shaping frontend systems that stay fast, maintainable, and durable as the product grows.
Healthcare at Scale
5M+ PDFs
Built a frontend-first PDF rendering system powering multilingual prescriptions across browsers and devices.
High-Traffic Social Product
500k+ web users
Shipped feed, threads, editor, rewards, and dashboard work for Koo’s web platform.
Building frontend systems that hold up under real scale.
Currently, I'm an SDE-2 at Ola Krutrim, leading development of the Ola Maps Web SDK and building core capabilities for the maps platform. A lot of my day-to-day work sits at the intersection of mapping, visualization, platform thinking, and developer experience.
Earlier, I worked on an AI-powered EMR at HealthPlix, helping move the product toward micro frontends, shipping a frontend-driven PDF pipeline that powers millions of prescriptions, and integrating video consultations and real-time notifications. Before that, I built high-traffic social features, editors, and dashboards at Koo, and shipped end-to-end products across healthcare, gaming, and e-commerce at Hybrowlabs.
I care a lot about interfaces that feel precise without becoming noisy, performance that changes how a product feels in the hand, and systems that can survive team growth, product complexity, and a few years of real use.
The problems I'm most drawn to are the ones where frontend is doing real heavy lifting: rich editors, map interactions, rendering pipelines, complex UI systems, and product surfaces that need to feel fast and dependable under pressure.
What I care about in frontend work.
Performance
Making interfaces feel faster in real conditions, not just in ideal benchmarks.
Architecture
Building foundations that support teams over time, from component systems to release workflows.
UI challenges
Product surfaces that become complex quickly and need thoughtful interaction design, strong systems thinking, and reliable execution.
Accessibility
Building interfaces that are navigable, readable, and understandable ensuring seamless usability across devices, input methods, and assistive technologies for all users.
Developer experience
Cleaner tooling, better workflows, and systems that stay maintainable as products and teams grow.
A few places I’ve built.
Most of my work lives at the intersection of interaction quality, product complexity, and systems that need to scale without getting messy.
Jul 2024 - Present
Ola Krutrim
SDE-2
Leading frontend development across the Ola Maps platform, with a strong focus on SDK architecture, mapping interactions, platform reliability, and internal tooling.
Own the Ola Maps Web SDK and improved developer experience, performance, and release workflows.
Built immersive 360° map visualization and customized Kepler.gl into an internal analytics dashboard.
Created API health monitoring dashboards and contributed editing workflows inside the internal GIS data editor.
Feb 2023 - Jun 2024
HealthPlix
Software Engineer
Worked on the EMR product transformation with performance-minded frontend architecture for healthcare workflows used by thousands of doctors.
Helped move the product toward micro frontends and offline-first workflows used by 12k+ users.
Designed a frontend-only PDF generation and printing pipeline that supported 14 languages.
Built online consultation and real-time notification features directly into the web app.
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Koo
Software Development Engineer
Focused on high-traffic social features, editor tooling, performance work, and engagement-focused product experiences.
Optimized the feed using code splitting and lazy loading, helping improve usage and DAU.
Built threads, user-facing reward flows, profile features, and an advanced `contenteditable` composer.
Worked on admin and analytics dashboards and improved accessibility for KaiOS users.
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Hybrowlabs Technologies
Full Stack Developer
Shipped multiple applications end-to-end, from product architecture and frontend UX to data modeling, deployments, and real-time functionality.
Owned delivery of web and mobile products with strong frontend execution.
Built products for healthcare, gaming, and e-commerce use cases.
Implemented map-based location features, chats, and scalable backend integrations with Parse and Firebase.
Let’s build
If it needs to feel calm, capable, and well made, I’d like to work on it.
I’m most at home in frontend-heavy products where details matter: performance-sensitive surfaces, rich interactions, product systems, and things users touch every single day.