Aug 2022 – Feb 2026 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Remote

• Neo4j is the world’s leading graph data platform. I lead Developer Relations across APAC, owning the strategy and execution for community growth, developer enablement, and ecosystem expansion in an AI-first era.
• Key responsibilities and impact:
• Built and scaled Neo4j’s APAC developer ecosystem across 9 active chapters, driving 165% growth in meetup membership by shifting from volume-led execution to a focused, high-impact engagement model.
• Delivered 200%+ overall community growth through a cohesive regional DevRel strategy that emphasized technical depth, consistency, and long-term developer value.
• Led the transition to a GenAI-first community motion, aligning meetups, content, and technical programs around AI-powered graph use cases and real-world adoption patterns.
• Expanded Neo4j’s third-party ecosystem presence by over 4×, establishing durable partnerships with leading developer communities, conferences, and ecosystem platforms across APAC.
• Acted as the primary interface between the APAC developer community and Neo4j product teams, translating developer feedback into actionable insights influencing developer experience and product direction.
• Delivered advanced technical talks, workshops, and hands-on enablement sessions across graph databases, GenAI, and applied AI architectures for developers, startups, and enterprise practitioners.
• Built scalable community leadership capacity, enabling local organizers to operate autonomously while maintaining a consistent technical and narrative standard across the region.
• Positioned Neo4j as a core platform for AI and GenAI workloads in APAC, strengthening mindshare among developers, startups, and ecosystem stakeholders.
• My work focuses on building sustainable developer ecosystems, scaling impact through leverage rather than volume, and ensuring Neo4j remains deeply relevant as AI and graph technologies converge.

Feb 2022 – Feb 2025 · 3 yrs · Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

• Advisory Board Member for the School of Computer Science, UPES, Dehradun - https://www.upes.ac.in/advisory-board/siddhant-agarwal
• Assist and advise on curriculum, provide strategic direction, guide quality improvement, assess program effectiveness.
• Provide advice on strategy and direction in your areas of expertise to create best practices that facilitate optimal functioning of the institute.
• Strategize and provide direction about future trends in relevant sectors that would help the institute prepare and be ahead of the curve when it comes to moving forward.
• Encourage and support the exploration of new business ideas.
• Leverage my professional and academic networks for assistance with live projects, industry events, professional affiliations, student employment, research and academic collaborations, etc.

May 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Open is Asia’s first neobanking platform for SMEs and startups. We make managing finances a whole lot simpler! We currently serve more than 10,00,000+ SMEs and process US $24 Billion in transactions annually.
• Built India’s first developer community around Fintech/Embedded Finance.
• Built and implemented Go-To-Developer strategy for Zwitch.io, an embedded financial services platform to help businesses create new avenues using our banking APIs
• Carved Developer Experience on Zwitch.io’s Developer Hub.
• Guided our developer programs and communities and represent their voice(s) and feedback to drive quality and improve the user experience of Zwitch APIs and Developer Hub.
• Contributed to Dev Content (Blogs, Videos, etc) for Zwitch APIs.
• Defined and led strategic performance projects, managing stakeholders to drive outcomes.
• Created strategic value-added analyses around growth opportunities, retention levers, and core business metrics in order to drive better decisions and results.
• Led OpenUp Accelerator, Kerala’s first fintech Accelerator Program.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Led 270+ Developer Student Clubs (DSC) leads from 120+ cities in India to help them grow their knowledge in a peer-to-peer learning environment and build solutions for local businesses and their community.
• Identified, worked closely and built relationships with 50+ Google Developer Experts in India: a global network of highly experienced technology influencers who actively support developers, companies and communities globally with 170% YoY growth in terms of scale since 2019. Worked closely with internal stakeholders and Product Area POCs involved in running the program.
• Designed, launched and led Build for Digital India (BFDI) initiative in 2019 in partnership with the Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India with the aim to foster innovation and entrepreneurship among Indian STEM students. The program witnessed participation of 7K+ student developers building solutions for our most pressing problems and "Solving for India".
• Led 13+ TensorFlow User Groups (TFUGs) in India, mentoring them to host massive online conference "TFUG India Summit" with intent to make ML and TensorFlow bigger & better in India witnessing 8K+ audience joining live.
• Startup mentor for AI for Agriculture Hackathon in partnership with MyGov, HUL and Google.
• Startup Advisor for Scaling SDGs together with Google mentoring program designed to support startups at scale in their mission to achieve one or more of the 17 SDGs by connecting startups to experts from Google and beyond.
• Community Engagement:
• Delivered trainings, sessions at Google Developers led or 3rd party conferences.
• Identified, worked closely and built relationship with other third party communities in India.
• Established relationship between 1P Developer communities (40+ GDG and GDG Cloud communities in India) and 3P communities in India.
• Worked closely with various Product Areas POCs and developers in the region to understand the state of technology/product area in India

Jan 2017 – Sep 2018 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Beahead focuses on helping individuals and organizations give shape to their ideas, and maximize their potential and resources to achieve the desired objectives.
• As part of my job role I was responsible for:
• Owning content development and delivery strategy for the company around some of the latest and cutting-edge technologies like: Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Deep Learning, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, etc.
• Owning Program Management for Intel Student Developer Program for AI and Intel Student Ambassador Program for AI.
• Owning Program Management for other developer skilling and training initiatives for Google and Microsoft (on behalf of) targeting K-12 and High-ed institutions, students and faculty members.
• Owning Product Development and Business Development strategy for some of the AI-based products of the company.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Worked with IBM Runtimes Technologies, India Software Labs to deliver IBM Java SDK which is the base for various IBM products such as WAS, Bluemix, DB2 etc.
• i) Contributed in enhancing performance and efficiency of IBM Java SDK and delivering high quality SDK;
• ii) Wrote test frameworks to enable parallel programming in a multi-threaded environment using CUDA4J API on NVIDIA GPU cards;
• iii) Wrote test framework for automated download testing using Scrapy and Java.
• iv) Demonstrated excellent debugging skills with efficient defect tracking, defect reporting, defect analysis and defect verification;

Jun 2014 – Jul 2014 · 1 mo · Durgapur Area, India

• Worked on project titled "Automation of Operation M.I.S." using Visual Basic. Project automates the existing IT process of Essar Oil Ltd. generating operational summary from Daily Project Report from different departments involving dynamically linked files to ease the export operation to the database server.

Jun 2013 – Jul 2013 · 1 mo · Dehra Dun Area, India

• Worked on project titled "Display Information System" using C#.NET. Project uses a richer UI and dynamic connectivity through database to display latest news update, thought for the day, word of the day, weather forecast, image slideshow and any important message for the day.

Mar 2013 – Apr 2015 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Dehradun

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