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Siddharth Kumar

EM @ Google • Board of Studies, CSE, DTU • DCE’12 • 14+ years experience in building and scaling products and teams from scratch

Greater Bengaluru Area

15+ years of work experience

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)
Jun 20264 mosPresent

Bengaluru

• Serving as an alumni expert on the Board of Studies for the Computer Science and Engineering department at DTU. • Collaborating with faculty to ensure the syllabus remains aligned with industry trends. • Contributing to discussions that enhance students' research capabilities and industry readiness. • Engaged with alumni to gather insights and feedback for continuous improvement of the curriculum.
Google
Oct 20233 yrsPresent

Bengaluru

Leading and contributing to vision of Google Workspace Monetisation through Admin Console by making customer experiences better through product and platform enhancement.
Wander India
Jun 201115 yrs 4 mosPresent

Bengaluru

I love to roam around and have visited 28 States and UTs in India out of 36 so far. I'm aiming to visit all the remaining ones by 2026. • Used Jekyll to build static blog • Used Firebase hosting to host freely and get free https • Used PublicAlbum to create image slideshow from public Google photos album • Used Gemini to create blog content along with my own edits • All photos on the blogs are unedited and taken by phone to give the real experience not the ideal ones.
Urban Company
Jan 20221 yr 10 mosOct 2023

Gurugram, Haryana, India

My Engineering Management responsibilities required solving for both platform & product engineering as well as people, stakeholder & project management: • Match making: Assigning the best suited partner to our customers to create a Win-Win situation for both of them. Customers should be able to get the earliest and best partner according to the services they want. At the same time partners should be able to maximise their earning. While solving these 2 objectives, we need to make sure that partner utilisation is maximised by increasing their availability & reliability and we do not incur request loss when there's capacity in the system. [Oct'21 - Oct'23] • Location: Location is very crucial to any marketplace platform. Getting location pings reliably is a good problem to solve. Our location stack is built using open-sources like OSM & OSRM to provide ETA and distance. At UC, we utilise the location to provide the best nearest job to our service professionals at the same time giving information to the Customer about partners' ETA. [Oct'21 - Mar'23] • Engineering processes: I try to create a balance between processes and deliveries. Defining Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, sprint processes, Bugs handling, RCAs, design documentations & discussions is few of the contribution I've made to make my pods a super team. • Hiring and expanding team: Creating self reliant pods of rockstar engineers for different business verticals and making sure that we all follow agile methodologies to deliver the best product. Have scaled my pods from 3 to 12 in just one year.
Urban Company
Feb 20201 yr 11 mosDec 2021

Gurgaon, Haryana

My Engineering Management responsibilities required solving for both platform and product: • Communication: To enable all the devs and business team to seamlessly integrate all inbound and outbound communications including Push/Sms/Whatapp/IVR/Email sent to the customers and partners. The idea is to enable business teams to do a lot of customisation, A/B testing based on different countries and categories, without having the devs to worry about code change and deployment, saving 100s of dev hours every month. [Mar'20 - Dec'20] • Large Home Projects: Striving to prove that an ops-heavy business can be scaled many-folds using technology. While enhancing the delivery experience of customer to get better conversion of new categories like Home Painting/Pest-Control/Online fitness by delivering MVPs, doing data analysis over it and then prioritising what to build next. Increasing NPS to 30 from -7 while doing 3X deliveries. [Mar'20 - Sep'21] • Help & Recovery: Making sure that customer and partner gets help at the earliest. Reducing contact rate while resolving more issues and maintaining a higher NPS for support system. Transforming the whole experience from a call based system to chat based to increase the productivity of agents while decreasing the wait time for customers. [Jan'21 - Mar'22]
RIVIGO
Feb 20191 yr 1 moFeb 2020

Gurgaon, India

Solving age-old never-solved problems of trucking industry at RIVIGO. • Getting involved with product management and solving problem for truckers by designing simple to use app for them. • Fleet app: Owned the entire agenda of the app which is for truck owners to rent their trucks for transporters. It had various features like search for load, truck tracking, placing bids, KYC, teams feature, etc. It was built as an async system for higher resiliency. Managing Fleet app's agenda by working with a geographically distributed team of 10+ rockstar owners including QA, frontend & backend developer and PMs. • E-WayBill App: Led the team to build a full fledged App, integrated with multiple 3rd party services to provide resiliency, easy to access features like section of HSN code, from-to place information, truck type etc. • Was part of senior leadership team which were involved in creating processes for hiring, onboarding, design & documentation, sprint cycles, RCAs, code-review and many more things which made tech team scalable. • Team building.
RIVIGO
Jul 20171 yr 7 mosJan 2019

Gurgaon, India

Bringing the trucking industry online by building a highly scalable tech solution which can be endorsed and embraced by all. As a lead backend engineer, my responsibilities include: Products: • Transport App: An app for transporters to place their requirements for trucks. It had various integrations like Google APIs, KYC verification, notifications and multiple other 3rd-party services. • Fleet App: An app for truck owners who were able to see all the requirements posted by transporters based on their location. Implemented queuing and cloudsearch to make the system resilient. • Notification system: Built the notification system which has multiple 3rd-party integration like FCM, SMS and email. The system was designed to reduce dev’s involvement for content changes. Other Responsibilities: • Understanding business requirement and planning delivery timelines. • Designing and implementing the backend and infrastructure architecture for a product/feature. • Managing sprint planning and scrum cycle of the product. • Introducing new and better tech in existing and new modules. • Streamlining the processes including deployment pipelines, on-boarding of new joinees, code-reviews. • Being very frugal when it comes to resource utilization. ie. Making sure that code is written in a way to handle more load with less machines.
RIVIGO
Sep 201610 mosJun 2017

Gurgaon, India

• Designed and implemented backend for various services. • Setup logging and notifier framework for server exceptions. • Moved entire AWS service to Mumbai from Singapore to save on latency (~50ms on each API call) • Introduced lot of new tech like JAVA8 streams and other APIs. • Handled DevOps responsibility in earlier days of setting up infra for Vyom business vertical
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Siddharth’s AI Stack

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Education

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering

Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

20084 yrs2012

Higher Secondary, Science

Govt sarvodaya co-ed vidyalaya

20062 yrs2008

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Headline

EM @ Google • Board of Studies, CSE, DTU • DCE’12 • 14+ years experience in building and scaling products and teams from scratch

About

Currently working as Software Engineering Manager (L6) @ Google. As a Senior Engineering Manager at Urban Company, I led the development and delivery of innovative solutions for matchmaking and location, two crucial aspects of any marketplace platform. With 13+ years of experience in software engineering, I have worked in various domains and industries, including sports analytics, food and leisure, logistics, and home services. My core competencies include designing scalable architectures, building and managing high-performing teams, and solving real-world problems using web services, cloud computing and Generative AI (Gemini/LLMs).

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

claude

gemini

geminicli

claudecode

Work experience

Alumni Expert, Board of Studies at Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE), Jun 2026 - Present · 4 mos, Bengaluru, • Serving as an alumni expert on the Board of Studies for the Computer Science and Engineering department at DTU. • Collaborating with faculty to ensure the syllabus remains aligned with industry trends. • Contributing to discussions that enhance students' research capabilities and industry readiness. • Engaged with alumni to gather insights and feedback for continuous improvement of the curriculum.

Software Engineering Manager at Google, Oct 2023 - Present · 3 yrs, Bengaluru, Leading and contributing to vision of Google Workspace Monetisation through Admin Console by making customer experiences better through product and platform enhancement.

Blogger at Wander India, Jun 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, I love to roam around and have visited 28 States and UTs in India out of 36 so far. I'm aiming to visit all the remaining ones by 2026. • Used Jekyll to build static blog • Used Firebase hosting to host freely and get free https • Used PublicAlbum to create image slideshow from public Google photos album • Used Gemini to create blog content along with my own edits • All photos on the blogs are unedited and taken by phone to give the real experience not the ideal ones.

Senior Engineering Manager at Urban Company, Jan 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, My Engineering Management responsibilities required solving for both platform & product engineering as well as people, stakeholder & project management: • Match making: Assigning the best suited partner to our customers to create a Win-Win situation for both of them. Customers should be able to get the earliest and best partner according to the services they want. At the same time partners should be able to maximise their earning. While solving these 2 objectives, we need to make sure that partner utilisation is maximised by increasing their availability & reliability and we do not incur request loss when there's capacity in the system. [Oct'21 - Oct'23] • Location: Location is very crucial to any marketplace platform. Getting location pings reliably is a good problem to solve. Our location stack is built using open-sources like OSM & OSRM to provide ETA and distance. At UC, we utilise the location to provide the best nearest job to our service professionals at the same time giving information to the Customer about partners' ETA. [Oct'21 - Mar'23] • Engineering processes: I try to create a balance between processes and deliveries. Defining Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes, sprint processes, Bugs handling, RCAs, design documentations & discussions is few of the contribution I've made to make my pods a super team. • Hiring and expanding team: Creating self reliant pods of rockstar engineers for different business verticals and making sure that we all follow agile methodologies to deliver the best product. Have scaled my pods from 3 to 12 in just one year.

Engineering Manager at Urban Company, Feb 2020 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos, Gurgaon, Haryana, My Engineering Management responsibilities required solving for both platform and product: • Communication: To enable all the devs and business team to seamlessly integrate all inbound and outbound communications including Push/Sms/Whatapp/IVR/Email sent to the customers and partners. The idea is to enable business teams to do a lot of customisation, A/B testing based on different countries and categories, without having the devs to worry about code change and deployment, saving 100s of dev hours every month. [Mar'20 - Dec'20] • Large Home Projects: Striving to prove that an ops-heavy business can be scaled many-folds using technology. While enhancing the delivery experience of customer to get better conversion of new categories like Home Painting/Pest-Control/Online fitness by delivering MVPs, doing data analysis over it and then prioritising what to build next. Increasing NPS to 30 from -7 while doing 3X deliveries. [Mar'20 - Sep'21] • Help & Recovery: Making sure that customer and partner gets help at the earliest. Reducing contact rate while resolving more issues and maintaining a higher NPS for support system. Transforming the whole experience from a call based system to chat based to increase the productivity of agents while decreasing the wait time for customers. [Jan'21 - Mar'22]

Engineering Manager at RIVIGO, Feb 2019 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 1 mo, Gurgaon, India, Solving age-old never-solved problems of trucking industry at RIVIGO. • Getting involved with product management and solving problem for truckers by designing simple to use app for them. • Fleet app: Owned the entire agenda of the app which is for truck owners to rent their trucks for transporters. It had various features like search for load, truck tracking, placing bids, KYC, teams feature, etc. It was built as an async system for higher resiliency. Managing Fleet app's agenda by working with a geographically distributed team of 10+ rockstar owners including QA, frontend & backend developer and PMs. • E-WayBill App: Led the team to build a full fledged App, integrated with multiple 3rd party services to provide resiliency, easy to access features like section of HSN code, from-to place information, truck type etc. • Was part of senior leadership team which were involved in creating processes for hiring, onboarding, design & documentation, sprint cycles, RCAs, code-review and many more things which made tech team scalable. • Team building.

Lead Engineer at RIVIGO, Jul 2017 - Jan 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos, Gurgaon, India, Bringing the trucking industry online by building a highly scalable tech solution which can be endorsed and embraced by all. As a lead backend engineer, my responsibilities include: Products: • Transport App: An app for transporters to place their requirements for trucks. It had various integrations like Google APIs, KYC verification, notifications and multiple other 3rd-party services. • Fleet App: An app for truck owners who were able to see all the requirements posted by transporters based on their location. Implemented queuing and cloudsearch to make the system resilient. • Notification system: Built the notification system which has multiple 3rd-party integration like FCM, SMS and email. The system was designed to reduce dev’s involvement for content changes. Other Responsibilities: • Understanding business requirement and planning delivery timelines. • Designing and implementing the backend and infrastructure architecture for a product/feature. • Managing sprint planning and scrum cycle of the product. • Introducing new and better tech in existing and new modules. • Streamlining the processes including deployment pipelines, on-boarding of new joinees, code-reviews. • Being very frugal when it comes to resource utilization. ie. Making sure that code is written in a way to handle more load with less machines.

Senior Software Development Engineer at RIVIGO, Sep 2016 - Jun 2017 · 10 mos, Gurgaon, India, • Designed and implemented backend for various services. • Setup logging and notifier framework for server exceptions. • Moved entire AWS service to Mumbai from Singapore to save on latency (~50ms on each API call) • Introduced lot of new tech like JAVA8 streams and other APIs. • Handled DevOps responsibility in earlier days of setting up infra for Vyom business vertical

Education

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Delhi Technological University (Formerly DCE)

Higher Secondary, Science, Govt sarvodaya co-ed vidyalaya

Public links

github: https://github.com/thekosmix

thekosmix.github.io: https://thekosmix.github.io/

medium: https://medium.com/@thekosmix

youtube.com: https://youtube.com/@kids.scroll