Sidharth Lakshmanan is a full-stack engineer and builder with 8 years of experience designing and shipping product-driven software across startups, venture incubations, and aerospace. He’s worked at the intersection of product and engineering—helping incubate stealth projects at Sutter Hill that became Bench, founding Bench Computing, and now leading engineering at Reve Image—bringing rapid prototyping and customer-driven design to production systems. His internships at SpaceX, Palantir, and Cisco show a track record of scaling complex configs, adding generative-AI features, and deploying enterprise-facing microapps that improved performance and usability. He pairs academic research—publishing work on protein-structure encoding—with hands-on systems engineering, from Bazel-based CI migrations to full-stack Django and React applications. Based in the Bay Area, Sidharth blends entrepreneurial grit with rigorous CS training (BS/MS, UW) and a penchant for building tools that make knowledge work more agentic and productive. A not-obvious thread through his work is an emphasis on creating reusable engineering primitives—templates, migrations, and component libraries—that let teams move faster.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS/MS, Computer Engineering, BS/MS, Computer Engineering at University of Washington
Contributions:37 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 23 days
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Sidharth Lakshmanan - Engineer & Builder at Reve Image