LX
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RockstarHitesh K is a Software Development Engineer with 7 years of hands-on experience building mobile and desktop applications, specializing in Android (Views/XML, Jetpack Compose), Flutter, and native interop with C/C++. He thrives on low-level systems work and multimedia challenges—contributing significant Windows and threading fixes to cross-platform media projects like dart_vlc and media-kit and adding lyrics and search improvements to popular YouTube tooling. An active open-source maintainer, he has authored libraries and plugins used by developers worldwide and frequently ships cross-platform features that bridge native APIs and Flutter/Dart. His product experience spans shipping UX-driven mobile features that materially increased orders and engagement, plus CI/CD, analytics, and real-time integrations. Comfortable across frontend (React, Compose) and systems-level backend code, he often surfaces subtle concurrency and resource-management fixes that improve stability. Based in Bengaluru, he combines a passion for problem-solving with a track record of turning community feedback into production-quality releases.
7 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (40)
c-language10
multiplatform10
python10
apidoc10
multithreading10
audio-playback10
flutter-apps10
youtube-api10
wp-api10
windows10
cross-platform10
winapi10
cffi10
media-playback10
api10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
alexmercerind/dart_vlc
Mar 2021 - Jan 2023
Flutter bindings to libVLC.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 24 reviews, 533 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:LX primarily worked on developing the Windows-specific implementation of the `dart_vlc` plugin, focusing on the core functionality. Their contributions included updating the plugin structure, adding features like a simple CLI for testing, and implementing classes related to audio sources, playlists, and event handling. They also added support for texture-based video rendering on Windows. Furthermore, the user implemented methods for handling various playback events, metadata retrieval, and video controls, demonstrating a strong grasp of both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
flutterlibvlcdartplaybackbroadcast
alexmercerind/youtube-search-python
Apr 2020 - Jun 2022
🔎 Search for YouTube videos, channels & playlists. Get 🎞 video & 📑 playlist info using link. Get search suggestions. WITHOUT YouTube Data API v3.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 releases, 16 reviews, 213 commits in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:LX's contributions primarily involve the development and refinement of the `youtube-search-python` library. They added a `Search` class, improved the quality of search results by implementing new handling, and created classes for more specific searches such as `SearchVideos`, `SearchChannels`, and `SearchPlaylists`. The user also expanded the functionality of the project with a custom search option and integrated a StreamURLFetcher for retrieving direct video URLs, all within the context of providing a Python interface for searching YouTube.
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