Chaitanya Siddeshwar
Hands-on Engineering Leader & Architect with 20+ years driving end-to-end platform delivery, scaling global GCC teams, and solving complex system challenges
Greater Bengaluru Area
17+ years of work experience
Feb 20206 yrs 7 mosPresent
Bengaluru
- Helped in building from scratch and leading an elite technical team for Kayrros's subsidiary company (GCC) in India. Since the pandemic of 2020 coincided with starting the company, it helped me acquire experience needed for remote hiring and leading a team entirely remotely. Currently leading the company in the "Managing Director" role.
- Was responsible for architecture and design of several features in multiple Products provided by Kayrros (a Platform, a Data Product Portal and a Solutions product). This included a highly performing "Asset browser" which can visualize millions of geospatial assets at scale on a Map and an app container that can host micro UI apps that help visualize various metrics for these assets.
- Designed authentication and authorization for several Kayrros products using both in-house and Auth0 based identity provider.
- Managed end-to-end responsibility of the products mentioned above including making sure that the products are running and available to customers, observability, handling customer issues including direct calls with customers, customer onboarding, maintenance and new feature development, managing CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth deployment on Kubernetes cluster etc.
- Thanks to the start-up culture in Kayrros, acquired experience in managing phased development of large features split into a quick initial MVP phase for quick wins and several refinement iterations afterwards.
- Acquired experience in using AI tools for coding - used it for prototyping architecture/design choices and also for day-to-day coding and POCs. Also ensured that every member of the team is proficient in using these tools to improve productivity.
- Built an AI chatbot for our portal using LLM engineering technologies like Agentic AI, RAG, Vector Databases and LangChain
Jan 20155 yrs 2 mosFeb 2020
Greater Bengaluru Area
My experience in Symantec involved building Symantec's Big Data Platform & Analytics product. The product was called Risk Insight (https://www.symantec.com/products/risk-insight). This involved extracting useful insights from the petabyte sized big data store of Symantec telemetry.
I was involved from day one and my responsibilities included the following:
1. Collect analytics requirements from the product management and translate it to a "Data Model".
2. Design and Implement the Data Pipeline (ETL) that was responsible to create this "Data Model". This involved writing and optimizing highly complex hive queries and running those using an automation framework called Oozie. Java steps were written where a query was not sufficient to process the data.
3. Create Pre aggregates using the data model that can be further used for providing low-latency analytics APIs
4. Implement the analytics APIs using SQL queries on top of the Data Models and Spring/Java based framework
One of the most interesting work I have done in this was to convert our entire set of manually, monthly run ETL pipelines to a fully automated set of daily pipelines for incremental loading of data. Some achievements of this effort were that this saved a lot of resources for the product and also made it resilient to failures (error recovery) and it needed very less to almost no manual intervention to keep the ETL pipeline running on a daily basis.
May 20149 mosJan 2015
India
Worked in the Big Data Analytics team in India that was responsible for various analytics dashboards that were part of the Narus N-System product. I was involved in the DLP (Data Leak Protection) component which was responsible for analyzing network traffic and to detect leak of sensitive information. Aquired some experience with IBM Streams and analyzing real-time network traffic in this period.
Please note: Narus was aquired by Symantec in Dec 2014
http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/01/14/symantec-acquires-boeings-cybersecurity-unit-in-a-bid-to-boost-big-data-capabilities/ See less
Jan 20122 yrs 1 moJan 2014
Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Was Technical Architect/Lead for the development team for an ebMS3.0/AS4 gateway solution which is to be part of a new IBM product. The project was agile based. My responsibilities were
1. Involved in the project very early (when requirements gathering was going on) to get ramped up on the specifications
2. Came up with high level estimates for the project/solution as a whole
3. Coming up with user stories for various requirements that are to be satisfied by the solution
4. Preparing detailed design for various components involved in the High Level Architecture of the solution
5. Technically enabling the teams to get started on the work every iteration and guiding throughout the iteration
6. Attending the global Scrum Of Scrums and discussing technical dependencies and issues between teams
7. Giving knowledge transfer sessions to enable teams on new aspects of the ebMS/AS4 specifications and the design
8. Initiating/Getting involved in design discussions with the high level design council (Senior Architects) as well as with the team members
Jan 20111 yr 1 moJan 2012
Bengaluru Area, India
Joined IBM via acquisition. Was tech lead for Web Services gateway component development for a new product which was based on based on OSGi, Axis 2, Message Bus and Service Oriented Architecture. The components were distributed in nature.
The web service stack being developed uses axis2 as the SOAP engine, embedded WAS as the HTTP Server and Sterling Integrator as the Document Processing engine. Rampart is used as the provider of WS-Security features. The major work/challenges in this project involved the following
• Understanding of the various web services specifications and using that knowledge to add product features like security and reliability
• Scrum based agile development with sprints of 3-6 weeks
• Understanding/implementing the OSGi way of designing and developing components
• Understanding how distributed components should work using a message bus architecture
• Using maven as the build system and RTC (Rational Team Concert) as the project/build management system for the individual team projects as well as the product as a whole
• Learning and applying APIs from libraries like axis2, Rampart, Sandesha etc to achieve what is required. This involved looking into the source code of these libraries to resolve many issues
Apr 20109 mosDec 2010
Greater Bengaluru Area
Worked on the following:
1. Policy Framework for Adapters: This was a very creative experience where I was given a set of requirements (one liners) on multiple server adapters (SFTP/FTP/HTTP) like implementing certain restrictions on the usage of the adapter (like limiting the bandwidth and data usage, restricting commands that can be executed, locking users out). I came up with an idea of implementing these as “policies” which can be associated with adapters. I also designed and developed a framework for the same which came to be known as the Policy Framework. This could be used for multiple type of adapters and minimized the code to be changed in adapters and was generic enough to be used in any adapter. This work was greatly appreciated.
2. Web services in SI: This basically involved handling the web services implementation in Sterling Integrator. I was the owner of the web services ‘provider’ in SI. I was involved in multiple enhancements for this adapter including enabling of WS-Security support.
The most exciting experience I had with web services was when I had to validate the working of SI web services with multiple 3rd party web services libraries like axis1,2, Xfire, J2EE WS. I had written an ant script that could invoke a given WSDL with all these technologies. This was greatly appreciated. This also gave me further experience dealing with 3rd party libraries (open source in this case) and debugging issues using the source code of libraries
Sep 20041 yr 7 mosMar 2006
Portal for Cross Country Healthcare: I worked on this project when I joined as a fresher in Infosys. My experience here involved some development work on J2EE and Web Logic App Server and mainly involved bug-fixing. My coding skills were fine-tuned during this time through code reviews from seniors. I also learnt to understand code written by others and to find loopholes by code review alone (a very important skill which I have extensively used in my career so far).
Chaitanya’s AI Stack
Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University
20004 yrs2004
PUC II, PCMB / Science
PC Jabin's Pre University College
19982 yrs2000
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