Siva Padisetty is a veteran technology leader and CTO with over 25 years building and operating scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant systems across Microsoft and Amazon and now leading engineering at GitLab. He has a strong systems-programmer background—C/C++, Windows and UNIX internals, databases, cloud services and orchestration—and has repeatedly built platforms from the ground up that transformed how organizations manage infrastructure at scale. At AWS he conceived and launched EC2 Systems Manager and led several management tooling suites; at Microsoft he drove industry-shaping automation and manageability features like Desired State Configuration and large-scale distributed test platforms. Known for recruiting and developing top-tier technical leaders, Siva blends big-picture vision with a willingness to roll up his sleeves during crises to keep services reliable. He is an inventor with multiple patents and a sustained track record of turning around teams and raising engineering rigor across global organizations. Based in Bellevue, WA, he pairs deep technical fluency (Go, Node, Rust/wasm tooling on GitHub interests) with pragmatic, incremental execution toward long-term platform goals.
11 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at Anna University Chennai
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
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Siva Padisetty - Chief Technology Officer at GitLab