Summary
Sidhhant Bhushan is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale marketplace and fintech platforms, currently focused on database and storage infrastructure at Stripe. He has deep expertise in distributed systems, reliability engineering, and end-to-end production ownership, having designed SLOs, reduced on-call noise, and implemented Kubernetes-native lifecycle automation for relational databases. Previously at Mercari he built high-throughput catalog, search, and customer engagement systems handling tens of millions of requests per hour and led company-wide category and attribute restructuring. He blends hands-on implementation (from control planes to security for distributed key-value stores) with thoughtful design documentation and cross-team coordination across time zones. Based in Bengaluru, he brings a pragmatic, reliability-first approach and a track record of removing manual workflows to improve availability and operational simplicity.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
St Stephen's Senior Secondary School, Ajmer
English, Hindi