Siddharth Srivastava

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Over a decade of experience in software engineering.
Expert in integrating AI solutions into existing platforms.
Proven track record of improving system performance and reliability.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Backend Engineer with strong expertise in AI integration and performance optimization.

Contact

sidmkp96@yahoo.co.in +919964946758 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Ai IntegrationBackend DevelopmentApi DevelopmentAlgorithm OptimizationPerformance OptimizationDatabase ManagementFramework DevelopmentMobile DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

AWSAerospikeAirflowAndroidCC#C++CSSCascading Style Sheets (CSS)Core JavaDjangoDropwizardEmber.jsHTMLJava

About

As a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience, I currently serve as a Principal Software Engineer at Atlassian, leading initiatives to integrate AI-driven solutions into Jira's ecosystem. My recent focus includes spearheading the development of Agentic Jira and AI Work Create Platform, enabling seamless work-item creation through integrations with tools like Confluence, Slack, and VSCode. With a strong foundation in backend systems using Java, Spring Boot, Python and AWS, I thrive on delivering scalable, innovative solutions. Previously at Atlassian, I contributed to platformizing bulk operations in Jira Cloud and enhancing the Lexorank algorithm for issue ranking, ensuring reliability and scalability. My mission is to build robust, user-centric platforms that empower teams to achieve more. Known for fostering collaboration and driving impactful outcomes, I am committed to leveraging cutting-edge technology to solve complex challenges.

Experience

13 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

7 yrs

Current Experience

Atlassian

3 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

Jira AI:
Leading an effort through a team of engineers to build Agentic Jira.
Planned, scoped, patented and lead a team of engineers to deliver AI Work Create (Backend) Platform by working with several stakeholders and teams. Several teams have built experiences on top of it so that users can create high-quality work-items from within their tools like Confluence, Loom, Gmail, Slack, Teams, Image, VsCode, etc.
Stack: Kotlin, Spring Boot, LLMs (OpenAI GPT), OLlama.

KotlinSpring BootLLMs (OpenAI GPT)OLlamaAI IntegrationBackend Development

Staff Software Engineer

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Apr 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Jira Cloud Bulk Operations (July 2022-present):
Bulk operations was identified as the #1 thing that most teams wanted to be platformised. So, planned out a long term roadmap for the team and shipped REST and GraphQL APIs for bulk operations by working with a team of 15 engineers.
Leading the initiative to platformise bulk-ops so that it can fit the Product's vision and also be leveraged by Atlassian-Intelligence (AI).
Jira issue ranking (June 2022-present):
Jira issue ranking (when you re-order issues) uses an in-house Lexorank algorithm. Have led multiple initiatives to improve its reliability and reduced KTLO cost for the team thereby allowing team to focus on roadmap items.
Working on ways to improve its reliability since the current algorithm will not scale for larger customers.
Jira Cloud Boards and Backlog (May 2019-June 2022):
Led few major initiatives that improved performance of boards & backlog for the biggest enterprise customers by more than 20% at p90.
Improved the observability health of Jira boards and backlog by setting alerts, published runbooks and guidelines for the group.
Influenced the org around what kind of investment is required when it comes to tuning db-performance.
Stack: Java, Jersey, Postgres, and frameworks build inside Atlassian (WRM, etc.), AWS, Terraform, Javascript.
Tooling: Splunk, SignalFx, AWS Codeguru, Redash, Lightstep, etc.

JavaJerseyPostgresAWSTerraformJavaScript+2

Senior Software Engineer

May 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Jira boards and backlog (May 2019-March 2021)
Lead 4 month long initiative that improved the performance of Jira boards and backlog by more than 50% at p90 across all customer cohorts. Developed an internal tool as well to visualise the dependencies so that team didn't remove critical components while optimizing for performance. This became a template and was followed by multiple other teams as well.
Lead a 3 month long initiative that improved the reliability of Jira boards and backlog for premium customers so that committed SLA could meet 99.99% instead of previous 99.9%.
Stack: Java, Javascript, Jersey, Postgres, and frameworks build inside Atlassian (WRM, etc.), AWS, etc. Tooling: Splunk, SignalFx, AWS Codeguru, Redash, Lightstep, etc.

JavaJavaScriptPostgresAWSPerformance OptimizationBackend Development

Cleartax india

2 roles

SDE-III

Promoted

Apr 2018 – May 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

Sharded MySQL to scale to the huge amounts of writes happening every month due to GST tax filing. Open sourced the core implementation due to lack of builtin support in Dropwizard (backend framework) & major limitations in existing ones. Link: https://github.com/ClearTax/dropwizard-db-sharding-bundle (Stack: Dropwizard/Hibernate (Java))
Multiple customer facing features in E-Way Bill & GST majorly including design & development of backend sync & async APIs, integration with Govt APIs and setting the project base from scratch. (Stack: Dropwizard (Java), C#, Amazon SWF, MySQL, Airflow (Python))

JavaDropwizardMySQLC#AirflowBackend Development+1

SDE-II

Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

Internal frameworks used across various products/teams like common excel/csv parsing & templating engine, csv export, custom- mapping framework thereby speeding up development of common asks significantly. (Stack: Dropwizard, MySQL)
Distributed infrastructure to handle large files generated by ERPs thereby allowing faster GST filing for enterprises. (Stack: Dropwizard, MySQL. Tool: Spinnaker/AWS)
Setup performance, error reporting, automated-release, sandbox for enterprise testing and other pipelines using Industry standard tools, ensuring that engineering bandwidth is spend on other useful areas. (Tools: NewRelic, Sentry, Jenkins & Spinnaker)

DropwizardMySQLFramework Development

Bigbasket.com

3 roles

Technology Lead

Apr 2016 – Jan 2017 · 9 mos

Migration to Apache Kafka from RabbitMQ to handle huge volume of incoming events.
(Stack: Django (Python) & Node.js)
Use of Aerospike for several operations & migration of heavily hit endpoints to Node.js to leverage Node.js’ concurrency.
(Stack: Node.js, Django)
Designing & implementing core backend for BigBasket Android App including payment integration with various gateways like PayTM, PayU etc.
(Stack: Django)

DjangoNode.jsAerospikeBackend Development

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Apr 2015 – Mar 2016 · 11 mos

Lead the re-write of BigBasket mobile app from scratch to improve performance & usability
(Stack: Android (Java))
Dashboard for Customers to see their purchase metrics
(Stack: Django & Google Charts (Javascript))
Message Queue Integration with RabbitMQ
(Stack: Django, Celery & Node.js)
Integration with Amazon Read-Replica for read-only queries thereby reducing load on main db.
(Stack: Django)

DjangoAndroidMobile Development

Software Engineer

Sep 2012 – Mar 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Web-apps for use by internal operations to improve efficiency.
e.g. figuring out whether all the order-items have been packed in an order & finding the delivery vans for a order-crate.
(Stack: Django & Ember.js)
Developed Android app (& it’s backend) for use by delivery executives to deliver order, accept card on delivery payments etc.
(Stack: Django & Android)

DjangoEmber.jsWeb Development