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# Siddardha Garimella on Tal

## Headline

Engineering Leader at Auxia; Founding Engineer at Swiggy and SuprDaily \(InsanelyGood\)

## About

With over 14 years of software engineering experience and 8\+ years in management, I specialize in delivering high\-quality engineering solutions to solve complex business challenges\. I have a proven track record of building and scaling high\-performance engineering teams in dynamic startup environments, fostering an innovative technology culture, and establishing simple, efficient, and sustainable engineering systems\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## Work experience

Engineering at Auxia, May 2025 \- Present · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Building growth platforms for next generation marketers

Senior Engineering Manager at Swiggy, Feb 2024 \- Apr 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, As Engineering Leader for Supply Chain at Instamart, I lead technology for procurement, warehouse operations, dark stores, order fulfillment, and catalog management, overseeing a team of 40\+ engineers \(SDE1,2,3,4s both FTE, FTC\), 2 EMs, 1 Sr EM\. \* Co\-own product\-driven business goals alongside the Director of Products for the entire charter\. Collaborate closely with business, operations, design, product, analytics, program, and GTM teams to drive impact\. \* Led key projects, including the launch of a dedicated Vendor Portal for suppliers, procurement process automation, high\-value item return enablement, and live operational excellence dashboards for dark stores\. \* Refined the supply chain technology blueprint and led its execution, simplifying the architecture and driving adoption across all new development\. This resulted in over $10K\+ in monthly savings and a reduction of 10\+ services, streamlining the overall system\. \* Led hiring for FTE and FTC roles, rapidly scaling the team from 20 to 45\+ engineers\. Established and enhanced systems to set both new and existing engineers up for success, reducing the time for a new engineer’s first production release from one month to just seven days\.

Senior Engineering Manager at Swiggy, Feb 2023 \- Feb 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid, Led engineering for Loyalty initiatives \(Swiggy One\), Acquisition, and Growth, while driving architecture and operational excellence across the organization\. Led a major re\-architecture of the loyalty platform, enabling rapid deployment of cross\-tenant loyalty programs with minimal engineering effort\. This accelerated the launch of Swiggy One Lite, Food Free\-Del, and Swiggy Black in record time\.

Sr EM and Head of Engineering at InsanelyGood \(by Swiggy\), Feb 2023 \- Jan 2024 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Heading the engineering team of 30 engineers through various stages of the company\. Hired and mentored 30\+ engineers while maintaining one of the industry's lowest attrition rates for over three years\. Led the engineering team through the PMF stage, rapid growth, a full business pivot, and integration as a business line within the Swiggy app\. Awarded the Annual Swiggstar 2022\-23 as part of the Insanely Good Architects Team for successfully launching the pivoted business\.

Sr EM and Head of Engineering at Supr Daily by Swiggy, Apr 2022 \- Jun 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

Senior Engineering Manager at Supr Daily by Swiggy, Oct 2021 \- Mar 2022 · 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Supr Daily by Swiggy, Dec 2019 \- Oct 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area

Lead Software Engineer at Swiggy, May 2017 \- Mar 2019 · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \*

SDE\-2 at Swiggy, Oct 2015 \- May 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, \* Helped setup the first version of Swiggy's data\-pipeline \(batched and real\-time\) and data\-warehouse to start the culture of data\-driven decisions\. Built an analytics app to give near\-real\-time view into the business performance across various verticals \(with city and date\-time cuts\)\. This was shared with the leadership and investors\. This was setup on a vertica cluster\. \* Setup the first data\-science team at Swiggy and started working on problems like cross\-selling, listing recommendations\. Worked on both the modelling and engineering aspects of these problems\. This gave us big wins in terms of driving up metrics on avg\. order values, avg\. items per order, time to order, demand shaping\. \* Was given the ownership of the storefront back\-end team which was responsible for IAM, Discovery, Search, Personalization\. Maintained and upgraded the existing systems which were not setup to be extensible or for scale; while driving the culture of experimentation\. Brought in good engineering and coding practices to ensure the team was continuously learning\. \* Helped setup A/B Experimentation as a platform capability\.

SDE at Swiggy, Feb 2015 \- Oct 2015 · 9 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, \* Setup the first versions of the catalog, coupon systems\. \* Owned the end\-to\-end effort to setup Swiggy's first call\-center and fulfillment systems\. Major wins were \- role based assignments; custom assignment logic for optimizing the call\-center efficiency goals; used web\-sockets to ensure zero\-dashboard reloads and real\-time communication with the agents\. This system continued without any major changes in the architecture for next 3 years\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \(B\.Tech\.\), Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

10th, Maths, Science, Social, Sanskrit, Ramanath Secondary School

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