Summary
Siddhant Deshmukh is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building resilient, high-scale distributed systems and observability platforms, now based in Palo Alto and currently at Figma. He led major initiatives at AWS OpenSearch — including Query Insights, Cluster Insights, and an LLM-powered RCA tool using Bedrock — and has a track record of shipping high-throughput data pipelines and resource-optimization features. At VMware/Uhana he owned continent-spanning ingestion and distribution services handling tens of millions of events per second, mentored engineers, and authored a patent-strength TCP distributor. His hands-on stack spans Java, Go, Python, Spark, Kubernetes, ELK, Cassandra and a range of cloud and streaming technologies, enabling end-to-end platform delivery from infra to observability. Siddhant thrives on marrying deep technical innovation with mission-critical reliability and has presented at OpenSearchCon, reflecting both practitioner and community-facing credibility. He combines systems-level thinking with product sensitivity—able to turn complex operational requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
ICSE, ICSE at Cathedral and John Conan School
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Engineering at SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at University of Florida