Siddharth Santurkar
Staff Software Engineer at WhatsApp
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSiddharth Santurkar is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale, distributed systems, currently leading development of WhatsApp’s central data access platform serving over 3 billion users and handling 100M+ queries per second. He previously architected and scaled core group, broadcast, Communities, and Channels infrastructures—driving 0-to-1 platform work that now supports billions of monthly operations. His background blends rigorous academic training from Carnegie Mellon with hands-on research and internships in stream processing and benchmarking at TU Dresden. Siddharth contributes to open-source database work (notably memory-cached drivers in the CMU peloton project), reflecting deep expertise in back-end, database, and memcached integrations. Based in Pittsburgh, he pairs technical leadership with day-to-day engineering—mentoring teams and shipping resilient server APIs. Colleagues describe him as the kind of systems engineer who can both design at large scale and dive into memcached driver code when needed.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computational Data Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computational Data Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
English, Kannada, Hindi
Github Skills (13)
databases10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
sql10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
memcached10
database10
network-protocol9
protocols9
communication-protocol9
networking8
postgresql8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cmu-db/peloton
Mar 2016 - Dec 2016
The Self-Driving Database Management System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:90 commits, 33 PRs, 18 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Siddharth primarily focused on implementing components related to a memory-cached database management system within the Peloton project. They introduced new directories and source files for a "mc_driver" component, including header and source files for interfaces and drivers. The user then integrated the "mc_driver" with the memcached system, and contributed to the SQL query parsing and output handling. They implemented a basic connection for accepting and parsing simple SQL queries.
management-systemrdbmsdatabase-management-systemself-drivingdatabase
sid1607/linux-3.14.65-src
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:6 PRs, 181 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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