Siddharth Deshpande

Software Architect  |  AI Systems  |  Engineering Leader

12 years of turning ambiguous problems into production systems — ERPs, AI platforms, multi-agent pipelines — across startups and enterprise. I don't just write code; I own the outcome end to end. At Apra Labs I built the AI and data platform layer serving 300+ US facilities: 7 AI agents and 5 production AI systems, a GraphRAG engine over 150K documents, conversational AI across a 4 TB database, and a FinOps agent that cut cloud spend 30% — while hiring and mentoring 20+ engineers and growing with the company from 10 to 55. Before that, a logistics ERP built from scratch to 2,500 daily users, 70K dockets/month and 100K hits a day, at MildlyClassic, where our team also built the software that got Wifi Dabba into YC W17. Separately, I co-founded UXgage, a behavioral analytics startup ₹5L funded by Deshpande Startups, Hubli.

Systems I've architected and shipped

GraphRAG Knowledge Engine
Enterprise knowledge graph pipeline
PythonAzure Durable FunctionsCosmos DBFAISSgpt-4o-mini
  • Builds knowledge graphs with entities, relationships, topics and communities via vector similarity
  • Two-stage ingest: seconds-to-searchable indexing, then graph enrichment in the background
  • 90K entities and 150K+ relationships across 11 Cosmos collections
  • OutcomeSupport knowledge reusable at scale; duplicate ticket resolution dramatically reduced
Multi-Agent Conversational AI
Supervisor-pattern agent orchestration
PythonLangChainLangGraphAzure SQLAzure SignalRReact
  • Supervisor pattern routing to 5 specialized agents across ~30 registry-driven tools
  • Natural-language SQL with permission rewrite, seven-collection RAG, 100+ report types over a 4 TB database, SignalR streaming of the reasoning trace
  • Outcome — Report generation reduced from days to seconds; non-technical staff querying data independently
Cloud Cost Intelligence Agent
Automated FinOps analysis
TypeScriptAzure Cost ManagementResource GraphClaude Sonnet
  • Nightly FinOps agent: 19 collectors across 3 phases, 13 anomaly detectors, 4-tier breach thresholds
  • 20+ standing questions answered deterministically; the LLM handles only reasoning, with a doer–reviewer loop checking claims against raw files
  • Outcome30% cloud cost reduction; prioritized recommendations delivered nightly, teams now own their spend
Infrastructure Performance Agent
Health scoring & regression detection
TypeScriptAzure MonitorSQL DMVsQuery StoreService Bus
  • Composite 0–100 health score per service, with rolling 30-day baselines for regression detection
  • Azure Monitor metrics and SQL DMV telemetry sampled at 15-second intervals, 13 anomaly checks, 4-tier breach thresholds
  • Outcome — Degradation surfaced before user impact; alert fatigue significantly reduced
Secure Logistics ERP
PAN India logistics platform
PHPAWSReactNode.jsMySQL
  • End-to-end ERP built from scratchFinance, Operations, Booking, Hub Management, CRM, Route Planning
  • 2,500 daily users, 70K dockets/month, 100K daily hits, zero downtime through scaling
  • OutcomeEnd-to-end shipment visibility for all clients; manual processes reduced by over 80%
AI Code Review Pipeline
CI/CD-integrated automated reviews
PythonAzure DevOpsGPTREST APIs
  • Reviews pull requests with inline comments and star ratings. 10+ languages, penalty-based scoring, fix verification mode
  • OutcomeReview bottleneck for senior engineers eliminated; consistent scoring across all repos
Search Index Sync Engine
Real-time & bulk search indexing
C# / .NET 8Azure AI SearchService BusDurable Functions
  • Bulk indexing via Durable Functions and real-time incremental sync via Service Bus, with index versioning and a dead letter queue
  • OutcomeEntity search across 7 people-data entity types made near-instant; search freshness under 5 seconds, zero-downtime schema migrations
UXgage — Behavioral Analytics
Enterprise usability platform
PHPNeo4jCassandraJavaScript
  • Captures clicks, mouse movements, text input and URL transitions to reconstruct actual user workflows. Built the entire stack from scratch
  • Outcome₹5L seed funding; idea to funded product in under 6 months

Experience

Apra Labs
Associate Architect · previously Senior Software Engineer
Aug 2019 – Present

Built the AI and data platform layer for a unified facility management product serving 300+ US facilities. Managing 3 clients, mentoring a team of 4, architected all systems end-to-end. Campus hiring lead for 4 years; grew with the company from 10 to 55.

MildlyClassic
Engineering Team Lead
May 2016 – May 2019

Built and scaled a logistics ERP from scratch to 2,500 daily users handling 70K dockets/month for PAN India secure jewellery logistics. Hired 7 engineers, established a 4-week release cycle, migrated DigitalOcean → AWS in 3 months.

Sister company · Wifi Dabba → YC W17: built byte-counting and usage sync software on Wi-Fi hardware, and the Google NBU analytics platform.

UXgage
Co-Founder & CTO
Oct 2015 – Apr 2016

Took an idea from zero to a shipped product in 6 months — won a ₹5L cash prize from Deshpande Startups, Hubli, with office space and Azure infrastructure granted separately.

Earlier
2010 – 2016

Samvit Learning, Founder — software training institute founded during MCA; trained 250+ students. Firaa.me, side project at IdeaFlask — travel blogging platform, 500+ organic users. dotCORD IT Solutions, Intern — 3 years at GIT Incubation Center.

Open Source

Plug — package manager for Claude Code skills; install and manage reusable Skills, Commands and Agents from GitHub-hosted registries. 14 packages, on npm as plugvault.
CodeHawk — AI pull request review pipeline. Runs in CI, scores code quality and posts inline comments. 16 language rule sets, 394 unit tests.
PHP ZXing — PHP wrapper for the ZXing barcode library. 277K+ Packagist installs, 133 GitHub stars, featured on the upstream ZXing repo.
MooPin — Pinterest-style column grid for MooTools, incl. infinite scroll. ~120 lines.

Technical Expertise

Languages & Frameworks — Python · TypeScript · C# / .NET 8 · PHP · React · Node.js · LangChain · LangGraph
AI & Data — GPT / LLM integration · FAISS · Vector search · GraphRAG · Multi-agent systems
Infrastructure — Azure (Durable Functions, Service Bus, Cosmos DB) · AWS · Neo4j · Cassandra
Practices — System design · CI/CD · DevOps · FinOps · Hiring & mentorship

Education & Recognition

Master of Computer Applications (MCA) — Gogte Institute of Technology, Belgaum
Leadership Excellence, Apra Labs (Nov 2024) · Customer Appreciation, Apra Labs (Apr 2023) · Guiding Vision, Pravega X Fest