Summary
Siddhu Warrier is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of experience leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver large-scale cloud security and orchestration products from London. At Cisco he drives the external RESTful API and automation toolchains for Cisco Defense Orchestrator, builds generative AI assistants for firewall products, and architects scalable deployment pipelines for multi-geo cloud rollouts. He blends hands-on engineering (APIs, Terraform, Ansible, Scala/Java) with people leadership across the UK, EU and US, having moved between technical lead and manager roles to scale teams and platforms. Notably he has shepherded management planes for SASE and real-time telemetry systems at ThousandEyes, demonstrating deep experience in distributed systems and security operations. His background spans enterprise and startup-style projects, pairing a formal MSc in Informatics with a pragmatic focus on automation, observability, and cross-region productisation.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Informatics (European Master), M.Sc. Informatics (European Master) at The University of Edinburgh
M.Sc. Media Informatics, M.Sc. Media Informatics at RWTH Aachen University
B.E. Computer Science and Engineering, B.E. Computer Science and Engineering at Anna University Chennai