Siddharth Dixit
Director Of Architecture at Fidelity Investments
North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddharth Dixit is a cloud-native architecture leader with 10+ years of experience, currently serving as Director of Architecture at Fidelity Investments where he designs scalable microservices, distributed data pipelines, and enterprise authorization systems. He combines hands-on engineering (Cloudera-certified) with strong delivery practices, championing clean code, TDD, and CI/CD to operationalize complex integrations across the firm. Previously a technical lead and long-tenured practitioner in large-scale financial and insurance platforms, he brings deep experience in middleware, Kafka streaming, and data serialization. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced Zerocode’s Kafka integration by adding Protobuf support and optimizing serializers, reflecting a pragmatic focus on interoperability and testing at scale. Based in North Carolina, Siddharth blends technical rigor with cross-functional leadership to turn architectural vision into production reality.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki VishwavidyalayaHigh School, High School at Tilok Chand Jain
Github Skills (14)
json10
javas10
deserialization10
kafka10
serializable10
serializer10
back-end-development10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
java10
serialization10
automation-framework9
api9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
authorjapps/zerocode
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
A community-developed, free, opensource, automated testing framework for microservices APIs, Kafka(Data Streams), Databases and Load testing. Zerocode Open Source enables you to create, change and maintain your automated test scenarios via simple JSON or YAML files. Visit documentation below:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 13 comments in 2 days
Contributions summary:Siddharth primarily focused on enhancing the project's Kafka integration by adding Protobuf support, including serialization and deserialization functionalities. They refactored the code to utilize ByteArray Serializer and Deserializer for improved efficiency. Key changes involve modifications to the KafkaConsumerHelper, KafkaProducerHelper, KafkaSender and ConsumerLocalConfigs to accommodate Protobuf message handling and preserve field names during serialization, showcasing a focus on data format compatibility within the testing framework.
casesapi-automationload-testingcontractsoftware-quality
respondsid/elasticSearchUI
Mar 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:8 commits in 5 months
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