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Siddharth Ahuja

Principal SDE @ Oracle | Get your career upgrade advice! x-Microsoft | IIT Madras

Hyderabad

9+ years of work experience

Oracle
Jun 20251 yr 3 mosPresent

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

- End-to-end owner (design, implementation and release) of Oracle’s metrics-ingestion multi-tenant platform Cortex, replacing AGPL-restricted Mimir, to meet dedicated-region compliance policy while supporting 200 million metrics/hour at a 99.99% reliability target with zero downtime in ~50 regions.  - Architecting a Kubernetes-native Autonomous Incident Manager for the Aeon platform, integrating real-time alert streams for smart-tiering and routing to component owners, cross-realm communication along with integration with AI agent for diagnostics to automate incident triage, mitigation workflows, and reduce manual on-call load.
Microsoft
Oct 20231 yr 9 mosJun 2025

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

- Designed and implemented DAS GraphQL integration across Billing Experiences APIs, standardizing common-dimension retrieval for 200K queries/day and 30K users at 99.99% reliability.  - Integrated Discovery APIs into Cost Card, supporting 3M daily queries; and performance enhancements by cutting iFrame load time by 50%, and enabling rollout to 0.5M MAU across all clouds.  - Owned Cost Card reliability improvements and redesigning Scenario Health monitoring and incident alerting to enhance product reliability from 99.9% to 99.99% fostering a team-wide customer centric mindset on product success metrics.
Agoda
Jan 20239 mosSep 2023

Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

- Spearheaded the revamp by challenging the status quo on automated testing for the crucial data pipeline (used for org-wide regulatory financial reporting) based on Apache Spark & Hadoop to improve efficiency, maintainability, and performance by 80%, thereby eliminating any late or incomplete reporting.  - Coordinated multiple cross-functional teams on standardizing encryption methodologies for customer-sensitive data across the entire FinTech organization to make it scalable and robust for compliance purposes.
FINMECHANICS
Aug 20193 yrs 6 mosJan 2023

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

- Design and presented the product requirements and architecture to CTO and Director of the company’s first STP automation service to reduce up to 70% operational costs for customers pertaining to workflow processing using Hazelcast Cache & Queues streaming 100,000 events/hour.  - Spearheaded and curated the company’s first Automated Testing Ecosystem using TestNG and Selenium for data-driven testing, improving efficiency by reducing man-hours up to 50% and robust delivery and implementations.  - Restructured Workflow Engine and introduced multi-threading to increase concurrent events handling by 7x the original capacity.
FINMECHANICS
Aug 20192 mosSep 2019

City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

- Project implementation consultant (on-site) for our first Treasury Management Solutions product client in South Africa.
FINMECHANICS
Apr 20194 mosJul 2019

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Project implementation consultant (on-site) for our first Treasury Management Solutions product client in Australia.
FINMECHANICS
Jul 20172 y 1 moAug 2019

Mumbai, India

Siddharth’s AI Stack

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Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Master of Technology - MTech, Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

20161 yr2017
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Aerospace Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

20124 yrs2016

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Headline

Principal SDE @ Oracle | Get your career upgrade advice! x-Microsoft | IIT Madras

About

Principal Software Engineer with 9+ years across Oracle, Microsoft, Agoda and FinMechanics, specializing in distributed systems, observability platforms, cloud billing, fintech workflows, and reliability-focused architecture. Led systems processing 200M metrics/hour, high-volume APIs serving millions of queries/day, and workflow platforms delivering 70% cost reduction, 7x concurrency gains and 99.99% reliability targets. Hands-on across Kubernetes, backend architecture, DevOps, infrastructure, frontend systems, and AI-agent integrations for automated diagnostics.

Location

Hyderabad

AI stack

claude code

codex

gemini

Work experience

Principal Software Engineer at Oracle, Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 3 mos, Hyderabad, Telangana, India, - End-to-end owner (design, implementation and release) of Oracle’s metrics-ingestion multi-tenant platform Cortex, replacing AGPL-restricted Mimir, to meet dedicated-region compliance policy while supporting 200 million metrics/hour at a 99.99% reliability target with zero downtime in ~50 regions. - Architecting a Kubernetes-native Autonomous Incident Manager for the Aeon platform, integrating real-time alert streams for smart-tiering and routing to component owners, cross-realm communication along with integration with AI agent for diagnostics to automate incident triage, mitigation workflows, and reduce manual on-call load.

Software Engineer II (L62) at Microsoft, Oct 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos, Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, - Designed and implemented DAS GraphQL integration across Billing Experiences APIs, standardizing common-dimension retrieval for 200K queries/day and 30K users at 99.99% reliability. - Integrated Discovery APIs into Cost Card, supporting 3M daily queries; and performance enhancements by cutting iFrame load time by 50%, and enabling rollout to 0.5M MAU across all clouds. - Owned Cost Card reliability improvements and redesigning Scenario Health monitoring and incident alerting to enhance product reliability from 99.9% to 99.99% fostering a team-wide customer centric mindset on product success metrics.

Software Engineer II at Agoda, Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 · 9 mos, Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand, - Spearheaded the revamp by challenging the status quo on automated testing for the crucial data pipeline (used for org-wide regulatory financial reporting) based on Apache Spark & Hadoop to improve efficiency, maintainability, and performance by 80%, thereby eliminating any late or incomplete reporting. - Coordinated multiple cross-functional teams on standardizing encryption methodologies for customer-sensitive data across the entire FinTech organization to make it scalable and robust for compliance purposes.

Senior Software Engineer at FINMECHANICS, Aug 2019 - Jan 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, - Design and presented the product requirements and architecture to CTO and Director of the company’s first STP automation service to reduce up to 70% operational costs for customers pertaining to workflow processing using Hazelcast Cache & Queues streaming 100,000 events/hour. - Spearheaded and curated the company’s first Automated Testing Ecosystem using TestNG and Selenium for data-driven testing, improving efficiency by reducing man-hours up to 50% and robust delivery and implementations. - Restructured Workflow Engine and introduced multi-threading to increase concurrent events handling by 7x the original capacity.

Software Engineer at FINMECHANICS, Aug 2019 - Sep 2019 · 2 mos, City of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, - Project implementation consultant (on-site) for our first Treasury Management Solutions product client in South Africa.

Software Engineer at FINMECHANICS, Apr 2019 - Jul 2019 · 4 mos, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, - Project implementation consultant (on-site) for our first Treasury Management Solutions product client in Australia.

Software Engineer at FINMECHANICS, Jul 2017 - Aug 2019 · 2 y 1 mo, Mumbai, India

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Aerospace Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras