Summary
Siddharth Shivkumar is a Senior Program Manager with nine years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, computer vision, and community-driven open source education. He builds programs that scale digital commons literacy—running large regional hackathons, themed global learning festivals, and student club frameworks—to connect beginners and veterans with practical CS beyond textbooks. Technically rooted in OCR, scene text recognition, document information extraction and synthetic data generation, he has productionized multimodel ML pipelines for after-sales systems at enterprise scale. A community-first operator, he has led 4,000+ contributor communities, hosted maintainer-focused podcasts, and ran India’s first MLH AI roadshow with Google DeepMind. Based in Kerala, Siddharth combines hands-on engineering experience with program design savvy to make technical learning and open source contribution more sustainable and accessible.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at Cochin University of Science and Technology
English, Hindi, Malayalam