# Apra Labs

> Associate Architect · previously Senior Software Engineer

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

- **Page:** https://siddharthdeshpande.com/experience/apra-labs
- **Period:** Aug 2019 – Present

## Impact

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

## What I shipped

1. Virtual Credentials — facility entry/exit across 300+ US buildings
2. Reporting platform — 1000s of reports per hour across 300+ tenants
3. Analytics platform from scratch — facility operations monitoring
4. GraphRAG pipeline — 150K support case documents, accurate answers
5. Interactive chat system over 4 TB database
6. Cloud Cost Agent — real-time Azure analysis, 30% cost reduction
7. Infrastructure Performance Agent — health scoring and regression detection

## Leadership & Impact

- Managing 3 clients with technical expertise, helping the team build and ship products
- Leading 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