Sid Verma

Senior Full-Stack Engineer / Platform Engineer / Infrastructure Architect

10+ years building products, developer infrastructure, distributed systems, and internal platforms.

Skills

End-to-end system design and development (Product → Backend+Frontend → Infra)
Scalable backend & API architecture
Internal platforms, automation & developer tooling
Cloud & bare-metal infrastructure
Cost, reliability & performance optimization
Remote collaboration & technical leadership

Languages: Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, C++, Java, Rust
Backend: Django, Flask, Node.js, REST APIs, gRPC, GraphQL, Microservices, Distributed Systems
Frontend: React, Vue.js, Next.js, D3.js, HTML/CSS/Vanilla JS
Infra: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD
Cloud: AWS, GCP, OpenStack, DigitalOcean
Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
Systems: Linux, Networking, System Administration

Designed roadmaps, led technical strategy and execution for early-stage companies and non-profits as a consulting CTO and senior engineer+architect, managing teams of 1-5.
Reduced long-standing tech debt while stabilizing business-critical systems - freeing up support time.
Built interactive knowledge platforms as commissioned projects and generative installations.
Designed large-scale data ingestion and processing pipelines with high purpose-to-cost efficiency.
Delivered end-to-end production systems with minimal overhead and high reliability.
Performed technical training, consultations and documentation for teams and organizations.
Directed the execution of technical infrastructure in immersive theatrical installations.

A fully remote consultancy that delivered managed services, custom solutions, and upstream open-source contributions.

Architected and built core platform components for large-scale OpenEdX deployments used by global clients.
Designed and maintained cloud-agnostic infrastructure across AWS, GCP, OpenStack, and bare-metal environments.
Reduced operational overhead by building internal tooling for provisioning, deployment, and monitoring
Led hiring, onboarding, and technical mentoring in a fully remote, distributed team.
Improved delivery reliability through better sprint planning processes and custom internal tools.
Worked with the OSS community in improving the core platform. Example PR : [Link]

Designed and taught courses in Programming, Web Development, Dart, and JavaScript.
Built web-based classroom management tools.
Developed backend systems for grading, feedback, and scoring workflows.

Worked on internal platforms managing global high-frequency trading infrastructure. Built secure monitoring and alerting platforms

Designed and developed internal EC2-like provisional systems for physical and virtual servers.
Led infrastructure visualization tooling for physical and logical systems.
Built a platform for organization-wide logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Redesigned automation frameworks for extensibility and reuse.
Reduced operational latency in the organization through process automation.
Achieved 2x-10x performance improvements in critical APIs.
Built multiple internal microservices and platforms from scratch.

Designed and built a high-performance social feed serving 50M+ users.
Developed a chatbot platform and templating language for interactive language learning.
Built multi-platform on-device speech recognition and grading systems for Indian accents.
Introduced CI/CD pipelines for automated testing, deployment, and rollback.
Created frameworks for offline Electron apps and PWAs.

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering