# Siddhant Deshmukh > Software Engineer at Figma Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/siddhantdeshmukh Siddhant is a highly experienced technologist and engineering leader specializing in intelligent, high-scale systems, driven by the challenge of architecting platforms that power mission-critical workloads at global scale. He thrives in fast-paced, intellectually demanding environments where deep technical innovation meets real-world impact. With expertise spanning distributed systems, observability, and AI/LLM infrastructure, he consistently delivers resilient, scalable solutions from the ground up. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Figma Jan 2026 – Present ### Technical Lead @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Palo Alto, California, United States Driving global innovation for AWS OpenSearch — a Tier 1, mission-critical service powering search at massive scale. Led key initiatives including Query Insights, a flagship observability platform, and contributed to Intelligent Insights, an AI/LLM-powered RCA tool (LLM Infra) using AWS Bedrock and CloudWatch. Designed and delivered high-throughput data pipelines with AWS Glue and Spark, helped launch Cluster Insights for predictive performance tuning, and spearheaded Hard Cancellation to optimize resource usage. Regular speaker at OpenSearchCon, and trusted expert supporting some of Amazon’s largest, most complex customers. ### Senior Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States Part of the TEC (Telco and Edge Cloud) Business Unit in VMware. Major Contributions: - Owned services that ingest 10 million eps and distribute 25 million eps spanning multiple continents - Owned and maintained 30+ services as part of the Uhana Data ingestion and distribution engine which is around 50% of the Uhana platform. Currently mentoring 5 engineers working on the platform - Designed and implemented the TCP Distributor services spanning multiple continents in production Successfully filed for a patent as the primary owner. Major reason for biggest customer contract renewal - Currently creating the CRIC platform from scratch and involved in multiple massive customer trials - Instrumental in moving the Uhana platform from Mesos/Marathon to Kubernetes/Helm - Setup logging framework using ELK and Filebeat for the Uhana platform spanning multiple continents - Designed and implemented zero downtime upgrade and high availability for Uhana ingestion platform - Key work on build/deployment/devops and resolved multiple customer production issues Programming - Java, Python, GoLang, JavaScript, C++, Scala, R, NodeJS, Angular, Express, Ruby, HTML, CSS Database - Cassandra, Oracle SQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Postgresql, Redis Tools & Frameworks – Kubernetes, Docker, Bazel, Spring, REST APIs, Git, Kafka, Aws, Flink, HDFS, Hadoop, Spark, Storm, Hive, Jenkins, Marathon, Mesos, Network Security, Protobuf, Prometheus, Grafana, HAProxy Website: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmw-uhana-datasheet.pdf Website: https://telco.vmware.com/products/ric.html ### Senior Software Engineer @ Uhana (Acquired by VMware) Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Informatica Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area OVERVIEW - Enhanced the Informatica Cloud Platform by creating new micro-services and enhancing pre-existing ones. - Owner of V3API (Informatica Cloud latest public APIs) and PC2Cloud (service to help customers migrate from PowerCenter to Informatica Cloud) micro-services. - Enhanced multiple micro-services as part of the cloud platform team. Worked on majorly on license-service (deals with all the licensing requirements for the various Informatica Cloud Products), V3API and PC2Cloud. PROJECTS PC2CLOUD SERVICE - Service to convert customer on-premise metadata to cloud • Designed and developed this critical service to help customers move to Informatica Cloud (Java) • As service owner, handled all aspects such as production, customer and deployment related issues • Hosted a booth at Informatica World to meet and educate customers using this product • Educated a team in India about the product who help with its enhancement and maintenance V3-API SERVICE - Informatica public APIs accessible to customers • As service owner, played a part in designing and developing latest Informatica public APIs (Java) • Added various endpoints such as authorization/authentication, licenses and privileges AKAMAI CDN WITH FALLBACK - Integrated the Informatica Cloud UI with Akamai CDN • Enhanced Informatica UI to use CDN for static resources and fallback to local on failure (JavaScript) ### Software Engineer @ Informatica Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Software Development Intern @ Informatica Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 Worked in the cloud team to add an essential feature, "Partial Update" to the Informatica cloud platform. The previous version of the cloud product only supported Full Update of data objects; I Added partial update feature to informatica cloud API (Java,Spring) and supported all the major data objects. In partial update, the user does not have to send all the attributes of a data object to update it; the user only sends the key attributes and the attributes that need to be updated. ### Software Engineer @ Netcore Solutions Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 Acquired and analyzed data for an affiliate marketing campaign. • Data analysis for Mobilevaani, a Hindustan Unilever project. ### Software Developer @ NetCore Solutions LLC Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Worked in the professional services team to handle client’s customized needs. • Back-end software maintenance and development and front end landing pages. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science University of Florida ### Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Engineering SVKM's Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) ### ICSE Cathedral and John Conan School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/scd - GitHub: https://github.com/siddhantd28 --- Source: https://flows.cv/siddhantdeshmukh JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/siddhantdeshmukh/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11