Siddharth Wagle is a results-driven engineering leader with 13+ years building and scaling distributed data platforms, currently serving as Director of Engineering in California. He has taken enterprise-grade storage products from inception to production, driving a product line from $0 to $25M ARR and overseeing organizational ARR north of $100M while managing exabytes of mission-critical data. A hands-on contributor to core Apache projects—including Hadoop, Ozone, Ambari and Ratis—he holds committer and PMC roles and has co-authored six patents, reflecting deep expertise in distributed systems and consensus protocols. Siddharth has grown engineering teams from 2 to 45+ engineers, combining technical stewardship with talent development to deliver high-impact features under tight deadlines. Notably, his open-source contributions include fixes and resilience improvements in flagship repos like apache/hadoop and apache/ozone, demonstrating a rare blend of production leadership and low-level system craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS Software Engineering at University of North Carolina at Charlotte
BE Computer Engineering, BE Computer Engineering at University of Mumbai
Apache Ambari simplifies provisioning, managing, and monitoring of Apache Hadoop clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:1266 commits, 73 PRs, 54 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Siddharth was primarily involved in enhancing the core server-side functionality of Apache Ambari. They worked on features related to batch request processing, including the introduction of tolerance levels based on task status, and they also contributed fixes for point-in-time queries and configurations. The user's work also included adjustments for the inclusion of the Hadoop common jar, and the handling of HTTPS configuration.
Scalable, reliable, distributed storage system optimized for data analytics and object store workloads.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Contributions:121 reviews, 42 commits, 57 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Siddharth's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Apache Ozone storage system, specifically related to the Storage Container Manager (SCM) and other core components. They implemented unit tests to ensure the correct behavior of container close commands upon SCM restarts, improving the system's reliability. The user also addressed DNS resolution resilience within the Ozone Manager and fixed logging logic in the EndpointStateMachine. The commits demonstrate an active role in improving both functionality and testability of the system.
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