Ownership
From problem to production, and what happens after launch.
Senior Software Engineer · LinkedIn
Hi, I'm Siddharth Panda.
I own problems end to end and ship systems that last — from lending at Grab to real-time infrastructure handling 1T+ events a day at LinkedIn.
- Events a day through systems I work on
- 1T+
- Loan repayment rate lift at Grab
- +1.2pp
- Added loan disbursal from a product I launched
- ~S$2M
- P95 queries over billions of records
- <100ms
About
Owner by default. Curious by nature.
I'm a Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn. I've shipped across fintech, real-time infrastructure, recommendations and ML — I pick up new domains fast and own the outcome, not just the code.
I care about quality: systems that are correct, fast and easy to run in production.
Skills
What I bring
Quality
Correct, fast, well-tested systems.
Range
Fintech, real-time infrastructure, recommendations, ML, computer vision.
Curiosity
I learn from first principles — like building a deep learning framework from scratch.
Backend & Distributed Systems
Go, Java, Kafka, Flink, Kubernetes.
AI-native Development
MCP, agentic workflows, Copilot, Claude Code.
Languages
Systems & Frameworks
Infrastructure & Storage
AI & Developer Tools
Experience
Where I've worked
May 2024 — Present
Senior Software Engineer
Apr 2026 — Present
- Fed real-time signals into LinkedIn's feed recommendation engine.
- Built Cost-to-Track: cost attribution across Kafka/Flink tiers, with sub-100ms P95 queries over billions of records on Apache Pinot.
- Built a config-driven event enrichment system on Flink, cutting onboarding from ~2 days to ~1 hour.
- Built a Tracking MCP server so AI agents can automate event onboarding.
Software Engineer
May 2024 — Mar 2026
- Ran telemetry infrastructure at 1T+ events a day; cut regression detection from days to minutes.
- Led the Samza → Flink migration: 12 jobs at 97% performance parity.
Grab
Aug 2021 — Apr 2024
Senior Software Engineer
Mar 2023 — Apr 2024
- Lifted loan repayment rate by 1.2pp with a Kafka-based notification system, shaped with PMs.
- Launched a line-of-credit product by restructuring existing loans — ~S$2M more disbursal.
Software Engineer
Aug 2021 — Mar 2023
- Re-architected auto-deduction: batch runtime 1.5h → 20min.
- Built CI/CD for post-borrowing services, halving QA regression time.
Internships
Grab
May 2021 — Aug 2021
Software Engineer Intern
- Raised test coverage to ~95% across microservices.
- Helped launch 2 cash-loan products with the Julo team in Indonesia.
HighRadius Corp.
Jul 2020 — Apr 2021
Software Engineer Intern B2B invoice management
- Automated PII encryption: environment cloning 2h → 5min.
- Built a full-stack invoice app with React and Java.
- Deployed an ML payment-prediction model.
Khosla Labs Pvt. Ltd.
May 2019 — Jul 2019
Software Engineer & ML Intern Document capture & OCR
- Built ID-card capture with OpenCV and OCR via Google Vision.
- Shipped it as an Android app.
Education
Education
2017 — 2021 · Bachelor's Degree
B.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering
Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
GPA 9.17 / 10
2014 — 2016 · High School
Science and Mathematics
O. P. Jindal School, Raigarh — Class 12, AISSCE (CBSE)
Score 83%
2012 — 2014 · Matriculation
Science
O. P. Jindal School, Raigarh — Class 10, AISSE (CBSE)
Score 9.4 / 10
Projects
Things I've built
Dumb TF
Deep learning framework with autograd, built from scratch on NumPy.
Chess Engine
CNN-based move prediction, playable through a web UI.
Centralized P2P File Sharing
Peer-to-peer file sharing, with a DHT to locate file blocks.
Autonomous Driving in Video Games
A vision model that drives a video-game car from screen frames.
Contact
Let's talk
Have a hard problem or an opportunity? Say hi.
- sidkiit12@gmail.com
- Bangalore, India
- GitHub
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