Sid Guthikonda
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Robinhood
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSid Guthikonda is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems, currently leading technical efforts at Robinhood in Sunnyvale. His career includes long-tenured backend and infrastructure work at Yahoo, where he progressed to principal-level responsibilities, and a steady track record of shipping robust, production-grade services. Sid holds a master’s in Artificial Intelligence from UT Dallas and brings a data-driven, systems-first approach to performance and correctness. He contributes to notable open-source work on OpenTSDB, fixing subtle time-series and metadata synchronization bugs and adding multi-get search optimizations, signaling a practical focus on reliability and large-scale data handling. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who pairs deep technical rigor with hands-on delivery across distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at The University of Texas at DallasBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at GITAM University
Github Skills (8)
opentsdb10
timeseries-database10
javas10
performance-optimization10
java10
distributed-systems9
hbase9
database-design8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
OpenTSDB/opentsdb
Mar 2015 - Mar 2022
A scalable, distributed Time Series Database.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 reviews, 47 commits, 109 PRs in 7 years
Contributions summary:Sid primarily focused on bug fixes and enhancements related to the `MetaSync` and `Internal` components within the OpenTSDB system. They addressed issues in the `MetaSync` utility, ensuring proper handling of `TSMeta` objects. Additionally, the user corrected a bug in the `Internal.inMilliseconds()` method, which prevented proper functionality across columns with larger qualifiers. Moreover, the user added a method to the SearchPlugin for multi-get queries, demonstrating a focus on performance optimization.
scalabletime-series-databaseseries-databasetimeseries-databasedistributed-database
OpenTSDB/opentsdb-meta
Jul 2021 - Oct 2021
A meta data store for OpenTSDB components.
Contributions:17 reviews, 7 commits, 34 PRs in 3 months
aura-componentsauradata-storemetameta-data
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