Siddharth Wagle
Director of Engineering @ Together AI
About
Results-driven engineering leader with a proven track record of architecting and scaling distributed data systems, driving products from inception to production. Passionate about fostering innovation and building high-performing engineering teams. Career highlights: • Architected and launched enterprise-grade distributed data platforms, driving new product revenue from $0 to $25 million ARR within 4 years • Responsible for the net organizational ARR of 100 M+ • Recruited, mentored, and scaled engineering teams from 2 to 45+ engineers (current) in the past 5 years, fostering a culture of high performance and innovation. • Directly developed and contributed to Apache Hadoop, Ozone, and Ratis, implementing key distributed system features. • Successfully navigating rapid growth and evolving priorities, delivering critical features under tight deadlines. • Active member of the Apache Software Foundation, with PMC roles in Apache Ozone and Ratis, and committer status in Apache Hadoop. Co-authored 6 patents.
United States
Santa Clara
Computer Software
Distributed Systems, Leadership, Director level, Machine Learning, Hadoop, Business Strategy, Large Language Models (LLM), Financial Accounting, Marketing Strategy, Generative AI, Java, Web Services, Python, Scala, REST, Performance Tuning, Scalability, Integration, Web Applications, Software Design
Experience

Director of Engineering
- Drove the strategic expansion of Cloudera Object Store (powered by Apache Ozone), achieving rapid adoption by 100+ paying enterprise customers - Responsible for the organizational ARR of 100+ million and successfully managing several exabytes of mission-critical data in the past 2 years. - Directed a high-performing, globally distributed engineering team of 45+ individuals and 4 managers, ensuring seamless collaboration and delivery. - Fostered a thriving open-source community around Apache Ozone, contributing to its widespread adoption. - Invented and co-authored 6 US patents, delivering significant intellectual property for Cloudera.

Senior Engineering Manager
- Creating a high-performance culture and training and cultivating new leaders and managers - Supporting partner teams: product, field, and solutions with direct customer acquisition - Handling cross-cutting and cross-org dependencies as Ozone became part of the mainstream Cloudera Platform and distribution - Defining the product roadmap for growth and several million dollars in bookings

Engineering Manager
Palo Alto, CA
- Started and scaled the US and EU: Ozone, and HDFS engineering team from 2 engineers to 25+ - Responsible for building the next-generation massively scalable distributed storage system - successor to HDFS - Part of taking Apache Ozone from incubation to TLP

Principal Software Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area
Lead multiple teams within Hortonworks to deliver high-quality open source products for the enterprise. • Ambari Metrics Service (AMS) and Anomaly Detection (AD) in time series data Designed and implemented the system from the ground up currently deployed on 1000+ customer clusters and used for real-time monitoring and alerting. (Apache HBase backend with classic lambda architecture utilizing Kafka and Spark for AD) • Performance optimization and scale out Re-architected the cluster manager and operation orchestrator using web-sockets and asynchronous event processing to scale to large clusters. Fully distributed AMS using Apache Helix • Log Search Leading the Log search team to GA an open source end-to-end system for collecting, storing and visualizing Hadoop logs. (Apache SOLR as the backend)

Member of Technical Staff
San Francisco Bay Area
Hortonworks provides a 100% Open Source Distribution of Apache Hadoop, adding the required Operational, Data and Platform services from the open source community in the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) Part of the Apache Incubator, Ambari team for Hadoop Data Platform Contributions to other projects like Apache Phoenix, HBase and HDFS. Highlights: • Designed and developed Ambari Metrics System for Hadoop on HBase using Phoenix • Scaled out Ambari server layer to enable managing Hadoop clusters of the order of 1000+ nodes • Designed and implemented several server-side Ambari features

Senior Software Engineer - Enterprise Group
San Francisco Bay Area
TeleNav is the global leader in location-based applications delivered via a mobile device, the first to launch a GPS navigation and mobile workforce management service on a cell phone in North America • Integrated disparate client backend systems to work with TeleNav Enterprise mobile product. Interacted on a one-on-one basis with clients to implement cost-effective and scalable solutions. Notable integration clients: Xerox, FUJIFILM USA, Advantage Sales and Marketing, Draeger Construction. • Designed and implemented version 2 of the TeleNav Data Exchange (TDX), public Web Service API for TeleNav Enterprise customers to integrate with the mobile product, compatible with .NET, Salesforce and Axis2 with a RESTful implementation. • Designed a Quartz based distributed job scheduling system that enables customized reporting and backend alert capabilities for TeleNav Vehicle Tracker product line. • Contributed to TeleNav Workflow, a platform that allows enterprise clients to build customizable workflows, built by extending JBoss community's JBPM framework.

Software Engineer
Dallas/Fort Worth Area
Intelliun is a recognized pioneer in Model-Driven Development – MDD, simplifying software development with its Virtual Enterprise (VE) platform that provides visual modeling tools for capturing the business’ logic in UML (Unified Modeling Language) and developing end-to-end, highly scalable N-tier applications. • Developer on WebOS team, Intelliun’s Content Management System and integration of WebOS with Amazon EC2 API to allow on-demand scaling and deployment of WebOS clusters. • Performance benchmarking and optimization of VE server, based on stress testing of the platform. • Re-architected the payment application model of the Point-of-Sale subsystem, resulting in 70% performance gain, part of the Rental Management System using VE for a leading Storage Services vendor.

Research Assistant
Charlotte, North Carolina Area
• Member of the DITSCAP team contributing to the Department of Navy, Charleston, SC's, C&A initiative • Combined the Service oriented designed paradigm (SOA) and Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) to develop the C&A toolkit. • Developed enhancements for the GEneric Object Model (GENOM), Ontology Modeling tool with capabilities for reasoning and domain discovery.
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