# Siddarth D Pai — Software Engineer

Based in Bengaluru, India (IST, UTC+05:30). Focus: distributed backend systems, cloud infrastructure, reliability, and applied machine learning.

## Canonical links and contact

- Portfolio: https://www.siddarthdpai.in/
- PDF resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12AjRpo1sgKhpoejuUupxoHRl2U72nhdu/view?usp=sharing
- GitHub: https://github.com/siddarthpai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddarthdpai/
- Email: siddarthdpai@gmail.com
- Phone: +91-7899304760
- Writing: https://www.siddarthdpai.in/blog

## Professional summary

Siddarth is a software engineer at Intuit with experience in distributed backend systems, cloud infrastructure, and ML. He has built high-throughput features for financial products, Go-based AWS tooling, and distributed systems projects using Kafka and Raft. His research covers cloud load forecasting and serverless autoscaling. He has contributed to open source and taught big data topics to more than 600 students.

## Work experience

### Intuit — Software Engineer, Distributed Backend & ML

**February 2026–present · Bengaluru, India**

- Built and improved high-throughput features for TurboTax and QuickBooks in a distributed backend environment capable of processing millions of documents per minute during seasonal peaks.
- Designed, trained, and deployed ML models that reduced cost by 70% while maintaining greater than 98% accuracy.
- Led technical design discussions and shipped internal Python and Java tools to support feature development and architecture.

### Netradyne — Software Engineer, Cloud & Infrastructure

**January 2025–January 2026 · Bengaluru, India**

- Extended Go-based AWS tooling, including authentication and caching layers, to reduce latency.
- Built Docker and Kubernetes infrastructure tooling that streamlined cloud workflows and improved backend performance for three teams.
- Shipped features and data pipelines using Go, Python, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, and Snowflake.

### Bristlecone — SDE Intern, AI/ML & Cloud

**June–August 2024 · Remote**

- Developed and benchmarked ML models on client datasets, using data augmentation and web scraping.
- Deployed ML solutions using AWS S3, EC2, SageMaker, and Rekognition.

### Volvo Group Digital & IT — Cybersecurity Intern

**June–August 2023 · Bengaluru, India**

- Worked on vulnerability assessments and secure network architecture; trained in cryptography and penetration testing.

### Additional experience

- **PESU Venture Labs, Full Stack Developer Intern (March–June 2024):** Built and deployed 6inc. with Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and AWS. The platform served more than 1,000 users across incubators and startups.
- The portfolio's [experience section](https://www.siddarthdpai.in/#experience) also lists a founding engineer role and other internships. This Markdown summary prioritizes the roles and dates in the linked PDF resume.

## Selected projects

- **[Distributed Load Testing System](https://github.com/siddarthpai/Distributed-Load-Testing):** Coordinated multiple driver nodes through Kafka for high-concurrency, high-throughput web-server load testing.
- **[Fault-Tolerant Task Manager (Raft)](https://github.com/siddarthpai/Task-Management-Application-with-Raft-Consensus-Algorithm-and-MySQL):** Implemented Raft consensus for distributed coordination with MySQL persistence and CRUD support.
- **[Wardrobe / Redis Clone in Go](https://github.com/siddarthpai/wardrobe):** Built an in-memory key-value store with custom data structures and persistence.
- **Autism Behavior Analysis via ML:** Evaluated models to predict autism spectrum disorder using features including digital screen time; curated data with NGOs.

## Education and awards

- **PES University:** B.Tech in Computer Science Engineering, September 2021–August 2025. GPA: 8.90/10.
- MRD Scholarship for ranking in the top 20% by semester GPA.
- Cisco ThingQbator: top 40 of more than 1,000 teams.
- Ingenius 2023: first place.

## Publications and research

- **Uncertainty-Aware Predictive Autoscaling for Serverless:** Accepted at ESCI 2026, the 8th International Conference on Emerging Smart Computing & Informatics; unified empirical study.
- **[HybridTimeNet](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10936297):** Accepted at ICACT 2025; proactive load forecasting in cloud environments.
- **Intrusion Detection in IoT:** Accepted, publication pending; optimized dynamic graph convolutional recurrent network.
- **Keli:** Accepted at NeurIPS 2026 AI4Good.

## Community and teaching

- Reviewer for NeurIPS 2026.
- Open-source contributions to Intuit and Vibinex repositories; Vibinex activity from June 2023 to December 2024.
- Big Data Teaching Assistant at PES University: taught Kafka, Spark, and Hadoop to more than 600 students and designed assignments and grading.
- Mentor with HackerSpace and ACM PESU-ECC; wrote articles and helped run the Hacktoberfest hackathon.
- Head of Tech at the Entrepreneurship Club; built the [E-Summit website](https://esummit.pes.edu/) with Next.js and Tailwind.

## Technical skills

- **Languages:** Java, Python, Go, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL.
- **Backend and data:** Kafka, Spark, Node.js, Django, Flask, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Snowflake.
- **Cloud and DevOps:** AWS (EC2, S3, SageMaker), GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git, Linux.
- **ML:** PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn.

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