Fabian Siddiqi
Managing Director at Thought Machine
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFabian Siddiqi is a seasoned software leader with 10 years of experience building and scaling engineering organisations at Thought Machine, where he progressed from Software Engineer to Managing Director. A First Class MEng graduate from Imperial College London with additional study at UC San Diego, he combines deep technical roots—contributions to high-performance build tooling like thought-machine/please and hands-on work in C++, Python and Java—with senior operational and product-facing leadership. At Google he developed Spanish TTS components, giving him rare expertise in language engineering and production-grade toolchains. He is known for improving developer productivity and testability in build systems, as well as for translating research-led thinking into robust platform services. Based in London, he blends rigorous academic training with practical engineering judgement and a track record of shipping reliable, reproducible multi-language builds.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMEng Biomedical Engineering, MEng Biomedical Engineering at Imperial College London
Github Skills (7)
bash10
build-system10
go10
grpc9
testing9
proto9
python6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thought-machine/please
Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
High-performance extensible build system for reproducible multi-language builds.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits, 17 PRs, 19 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily focused on improving the `sh_binary` build rule within the build system. Their contributions involved fixing bugs related to file handling and command execution within the rule. Furthermore, the user made enhancements by adding coverage statistics and default labels for proto/grpc libraries, demonstrating a focus on improving build functionality and testability. The user also made minor updates, such as typo corrections, clarifying wording, and refactoring.
buckmonorepobazelmulti-languagebuilds
fsiddiqia/.dotfiles
Oct 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:17 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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