Summary
Siddartha Pothapragada is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently applying hands-on systems leadership at Meta in Mountain View, California. He contributes to XR at scale as part of Reality Labs’ XR Runtime core team and leads Portal Browser, shaping AOSP frameworks and the SDK layer for first-party components. Previously at Magic Leap, he architected and implemented the AR Virtual Meeting session management stack to enable copresence and collaboration on the Spatial computing platform. His background spans Android telephony and secure element work, with roles at Qualcomm, Telekom Innovation Laboratories, and Mozilla-related projects, delivering reliable APIs and services across devices. An active open-source contributor with credits in the Android Open Source Project and Firefox OS, he is deeply versed in AR/XR paradigms—Presence, Colocation, and Collaboration. Based in the Bay Area, he thrives on turning ideas into prototypes and scalable products, always chasing the next interesting problem.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MCA, Master of Computer Applications, MCA, Master of Computer Applications at Osmania University
English