Pritesh Nandgaonkar
Software Engineer at WhatsApp
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPritesh Nandgaonkar is a software engineer based in England with 10 years of experience specializing in full‑stack mobile development and iOS engineering. He currently works at WhatsApp and spent four years at Facebook, contributing to high‑profile open-source projects like React Native, Yoga and Litho where he implemented low‑level layout and performance optimizations across Android, iOS and macOS. His work includes JNI and C/C++ refactors, fine‑grained dirty‑child tracking in Yoga, and building iOS crash‑reporter features for Flipper—demonstrating deep systems‑level and performance‑first instincts. Earlier roles include Android and React Native app development, an MQTT‑based analytics SDK, and a hackathon‑winning iOS donation app that closed the donation feedback loop. He also has research experience from NUS building ZigBee telemetry for AUVs and holds a BTech (Honours) from IIT Bombay. Pritesh blends rigorous low‑level engineering with pragmatic product sensibilities to make cross‑platform UIs faster and more reliable.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
English, Hindi, Japanese, gujarati,kutchi, Marathi
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Github Skills (36)
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c-language10
mobile-development10
react-native10
layout10
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c1110
c1710
mobile-application10
jna10
componentkit10
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performance-optimization10
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/flipper
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
A desktop debugging platform for mobile developers.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:7 releases, 8 reviews, 762 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Pritesh primarily contributed to the `facebook/flipper` repository, focusing on features related to iOS mobile development. They implemented and refactored code for the iOS side of the crash reporter plugin, including handling exceptions and signals, showing notifications, and integrating with the UI. The user was also responsible for code maintenance, plugin identifier updates, and the migration of various components, like the network and layout plugins, to a different code structure.
windowsdebuggingdebugcross-platformdesktop
facebook/yoga
Oct 2017 - Nov 2019
Yoga is an embeddable layout engine targeting web standards.
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Performance Engineer
Backend Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:5 releases, 117 commits, 6 tags in 2 years
Contributions summary:Pritesh's primary contributions focused on optimizing the Yoga layout engine, specifically targeting performance improvements. Their work included introducing a `hasDirtyChildren` tag for more fine-grained dirty marking to reduce unnecessary recalculations within the layout tree. They also addressed a bug related to height calculation for baseline-aligned elements, improving the accuracy of layout computations and added a test case for reproducing the issue. They refactored multiple functions, including the flexbox logic and various accessor methods for improved code clarity.
followlayoutandroidupdatescross-platform
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