Siddharth Mitra
Principal Engineer at Paylocity
Chile
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Top SchoolSiddharth Mitra is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building and scaling web platforms, currently responsible for the Paylocity Airbase finance product and its platform-level reliability, security, and developer productivity post-acquisition. He blends deep backend expertise—Python/Django, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch—with hands-on DevOps and CI/CD leadership to run hundreds of millions of workflows and billions of events monthly. As a serial founder and early technical hire, he has repeatedly turned ideas into shipped products for startups and enterprise clients, having managed parallel projects at his agency Cloudshuffle and helped launch Airbase from closed beta. He’s pragmatic about buy vs. build decisions, fights complexity with architectural lints and typing/testing culture, and mentors engineers across the ladder. Based in Chile with an IIT Delhi M.Tech, Siddharth pairs data-science tooling familiarity (Spark, scikit-learn, pandas) and search/geospatial know-how with a knack for improving developer workflow and system maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)B.Tech., Information Technology, B.Tech., Information Technology at Vellore Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Air Force Bal Bharati School
English, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
json-schema10
linter10
python10
rest-framework10
upload-file10
django10
pythonic10
pep10
google-authentication10
semgrep10
react-google-login10
mypy10
django-rest10
validation10
redis-cache10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
sidmitra/emacs.d
Mar 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:274 commits, 225 pushes, 9 branches in 7 years 5 months
sidmitra/sidmitra.com
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 4 branches in 10 years 1 month
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