Associate Architect · AI & Cloud Systems

I build systems
that run
businesses.

From 0-to-1 products to enterprise platforms serving 300+ facilities — I take ambiguous problems, architect the system, hire the team, and ship.

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Siddharth Deshpande

12+

years shipping

6

AI agents shipped

8+

production AI systems

100K

hits/day on ERP built from scratch

30%

cloud costs cut via FinOps agent

1.5L

docs powering GraphRAG system

300+

US facilities on unified platform

10→55

team growth since early days

How I Work

I don't just write code.
I own the outcome.

Every role follows the same pattern: find the problem nobody's solving, take ownership, architect the system, hire and mentor the team, ship to production. I've done this across logistics ERPs, AI platforms, and hardware — often running multiple products in parallel.

0→1

Take ideas from nothing to production

3

Clients managed simultaneously right now

20+

Engineers hired and mentored across career

Experience

Where I've made an impact

Apra Labs

Associate Architect

Aug 2019 – Present

300+ facilities served
30% cloud costs reduced
10→55 team growth

Built the AI and data platform layer for a unified facility management product serving 300+ US facilities.

  • Virtual Credentials — facility entry/exit across 300+ US buildings
  • Reporting platform — 1000s of reports per hour across 300+ tenants
  • Analytics platform from scratch — facility operations monitoring
  • GraphRAG pipeline — 1.5L support case documents, accurate answers
  • Interactive chat system over 4 TB database
  • Cloud Cost Agent — real-time Azure analysis, 30% cost reduction

Leadership & Impact

  • Managing 3 clients with technical expertise, helping the team build and ship products
  • Lead a team of 4 as technical mentor across multiple projects
  • Architected all systems end-to-end
  • Led 10 community meetups on Saturdays
  • Campus hiring lead for 4 years — IIIT Dharwad & GIT Belgaum
  • Grew with the company from 10 engineers to 55 people

MildlyClassic

Engineering Team Lead

May 2016 – May 2023

70K dockets/month
2.5K daily users
7 engineers hired

Built and scaled a mission-critical logistics ERP from scratch to 2,500 daily users handling 70K dockets/month.

  • End-to-end ERP — Finance, Ops, Booking App, Hub Management for PAN India secure logistics
  • Clients: large jewellery manufacturers shipping daily from manufacturing to retail
  • Bulk Docket creation via upload, 70K deliveries/month
  • Scaled from 100s to 2,500 daily users with zero downtime
  • Migrated DigitalOcean → AWS in 3 months after security incident

Leadership & Process

  • Hired 7 developers, led the team through the full product lifecycle
  • Direct client interface — requirements to modules
  • Established 4-week release cycle — build, test, deploy monthly
  • System served entire company (Ops + Finance) all day, every day

Meanwhile — Sister Company · Affordable Wi-Fi → YC W17

Pre-Jio era — built byte-counting and usage sync software on Wi-Fi hardware for a sister company selling data at ₹2/100 MB. Built the Google NBU analytics platform for Hubli. Hired 4-5 members post-funding.

UXgage

Co-Founder & CTO

Oct 2015 – Apr 2016

0→1 product shipped
₹5L seed funding

Took an idea from zero to a funded product in 6 months — ₹5L seed from Sandbox Startups, plus office space and Azure infrastructure.

  • Core product architecture — PHP, Neo4j, Cassandra
  • JS instrumentation engine capturing user interactions and behavioral data
  • Data pipeline for large-volume user interaction storage

Leadership

  • Owned the product end-to-end — not a contributor, the builder
  • Hired ~3 engineers, mentored them, unblocked technical challenges
  • Conducted product demos for clients and stakeholders

Earlier

2010 – 2015

Firaa.me

Side Project · Built at IdeaFlask · Sep 2014 – Sep 2015

Built and shipped a travel blogging platform end-to-end. Reached 500+ organic users in 6 months with zero marketing spend.

Samvit Learning

Founder · Apr 2011 – Apr 2016

Founded a software training institute during 2nd year of MCA. Trained 250+ students in web programming technologies. Managed 25+ innovative projects.

dotCORD IT Solutions

Web Developer Intern · 2010–2013

Interned for 3 years at GIT Incubation Center. Learned software engineering before completing MCA. Built applications on PHP frameworks (CodeIgniter, Yii).

Products

Systems I've architected and shipped

GraphRAG Knowledge Engine

Enterprise knowledge graph pipeline

Full GraphRAG pipeline — ingests documents, builds knowledge graphs with entities, relationships, topics, and communities via vector similarity. 17 activity classes, 14 prompt templates.

PythonDurable FunctionsCosmos DBFAISS

Multi-Agent Conversational AI

Supervisor-pattern agent orchestration

Supervisor pattern routing to 5 specialized agents — Reporting, Admin, System Setup, Knowledge, and Support Tickets. Registry-driven tools, two-tier RAG.

PythonLangChainLangGraphSignalR

AI Code Review Pipeline

CI/CD-integrated automated reviews

Automatically reviews pull requests with inline comments and star ratings. 10+ languages, penalty-based scoring, fix verification mode.

PythonAzure DevOpsGPT

Cloud Cost Intelligence Agent

Automated FinOps analysis

18 data collectors, 3 phases, 13 anomaly detectors. Identified unused resources and optimization opportunities, reducing cloud costs by 30%.

TypeScriptAzure Cost MgmtLLM

Infrastructure Performance Agent

Health scoring & regression detection

Composite health score (0–100) per service. Rolling 30-day baselines for regression detection, surfacing degradation before impact.

TypeScriptAzure MonitorService Bus

Search Index Sync Engine

Real-time & bulk search indexing

Synchronizing records into Azure Cognitive Search. Bulk indexing via Durable Functions, real-time incremental sync via Service Bus.

C# / .NET 8Cognitive SearchService Bus

Secure Logistics ERP

PAN India logistics platform

End-to-end ERP — Finance, Operations, Booking, Hub Management, CRM, Route Planning. 2,500 daily users, 70K dockets/month.

PHPAWSReactNode.js

UXgage — Behavioral Analytics

Enterprise usability platform

Capturing clicks, mouse movements, text input, navigation and URL transitions to reconstruct actual user workflows. Built the entire stack from scratch.

PHPNeo4JCassandraJavaScript

Open Source

Giving back to the community

PlugVault

Reusable AI coding skills registry

Ecosystem for packaging, sharing, and distributing reusable AI coding skills for Claude Code.

GitHub

CodeHawk

AI-powered code analysis

Intelligent code analysis platform for reviewing code quality through AI-assisted workflows and LLM integration.

GitHub

PHP ZXing

4K+ downloads · 50+ stars

Wrapper for ZXing barcode library. Featured on the primary ZXing GitHub repository page.

GitHub

Recognition

Awards & acknowledgements

Leadership Excellence

Apra Labs · Nov 2024 — Chosen by team for client management, mentorship, and independent releases

Customer Appreciation

Apra Labs · Apr 2023 — Made a major trade-show demo a resounding success

Guiding Vision

Pravega X Fest — Exceptional contribution and unwavering dedication

Best Boy Award

Govindram Seksaria College · May 2010

Writing

On Medium

@siddharthanantdeshpande

Writing about AI systems, architecture patterns, and engineering leadership →

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