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// four lanes

Four things at once

Work delivered, open source merged, writing published, chess played, every month since 2019. Listed separately they read as four interests. Run in parallel they read as what they were: the same seven years, moving on every lane at once.

Same grid this profile's README already draws (github.com/darkpandawarrior), rendered live here instead of as a fetched image. Hover a cell for its month and count.

The four lanes

work
open source
writing
chess
20192020202120222023202420252026

work

709 documented deliverables in force

peak 2026-04: 15

open source

7,282 public contributions

peak 2026-07: 2,906

writing

25 pieces published

peak 2019-06: 7

chess

4,900 games played

peak 2023-07: 328

8 calendar years on one axis. Each lane states its own unit because they are not the same kind of count: documented deliverables in force, public contributions, pieces published, games played. The writing lane is plotted at year resolution, most pieces carry a year but no month, so read it by year rather than by cell. Chess and writing each have their own room with the full sourcing: /chess, /loopdown.

frequently asked

What does he do at Dice.tech?

SDE-2, Android & Product Owner at Dice.tech (June 2023 - Present), platform owner of the app behind 50k+ monthly active users (22k+ daily, platform owner at Dice.tech). See the source.

What did he do to improve GPS accuracy?

Took GPS accuracy to 95%: up from 50%, by predictive dead reckoning. See the source.

How did he reduce production crashes?

80% crash reduction: Crashlytics + structured concurrency fixes. See the source.

How much of the app is Jetpack Compose?

~87% of the UI layer: 455k of 523k UI-layer LOC, verified screen by screen against the legacy XML. See the source.

Where did he study?

B.Tech, Computer Science & Engineering, NIT Bhopal (MANIT) (2017 - 2021). See the source.

What is the Neev Consulting role?

Consulting Engineer, Platform & AI at Neev Consulting (April 2026 - Present). Built the LLM assistant layer of an ERPNext/Frappe consulting ERP: business-context resolution, capability discovery, and an AI capability gate that defaults OFF with a test proving it. Models client to project to PO to milestone to GST invoice to payment end to end. See the source.

What is Doori?

Doori: Offline-first mileage, travel & expense tracker on one Kotlin codebase across Android, iOS, Wear OS, watchOS & Desktop. See the source.

What is Gaddi?

Gaddi: A Hinglish social-deduction bluffing game of power, satire & second chances. Gaddi ke liye kuch bhi karega. See the source.

What is PaymentsLab-KMP?

PaymentsLab-KMP: An Integration Lab for the Android payments ecosystem: every gateway behind one abstraction, with a live look at what actually happens on each transaction. See the source.

What is Candidai?

Candidai: A native, multiplatform AI career-intelligence engine, and the open-source project it's built on. See the source.

Does he write, outside of code?

Yes: The Loopdown, his field-notes writing hub, where the recurring bug characters are named after real production incidents. See the source.

What's he like to work with?

Answered by his own teammates, not by him: see the EB Profiles, one question per member, in their own words. See the source.

Is he available, and how do I reach him?

Open to remote (worldwide / India) and hybrid in Pune / Bengaluru. Email siddharthpandalai990@gmail.com. See the source.

What has he contributed outside employer work?

Shared Kotlin Multiplatform libraries used across his own apps, plus merged upstream pull requests on career-ops: see the repos and the running count. See the source.

Has anything he's built shipped for real?

Yes: see the Play Store shelf for the apps that are actually live and installable, not just source. See the source.

What can I try on this site besides reading it?

Every route on the site, as a tile you can open: 3D builds, labs and canvases, not screenshots. See the source.