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Sid Verma

Senior Full-Stack & Platform Engineer with 10+ years of experience building scalable and stable products, internal platforms, and complex systems across SaaS, fintech, education and media.

I like working on systems end-to-end – including product design, engineering, architecture and reliability. I specialize in building good backends.

I also care about building systems that are simple, resilient, and economically efficient, and teams that can move fast without breaking production.

Skills

Core Strengths

  • End-to-end system design (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

Primary Technologies

  • Backend: Python, Go, Javascript/TS, C++
  • Frontend: React, Vue.js, Next.JS
  • Infra: Docker, Terraform, Ansible
  • Cloud: AWS, GCP, OpenStack, DigitalOcean
  • etc: Networks, SQL, System Administration

Experience

Independent Consultant / Fractional CTO (2024 - Present)

Serendipity Arts Festival, India Foundation for the Arts, Ecological Restoration Alliance, Digital Futures Lab, shepherd.com, March work, Maker's Asylum

Senior Full Stack Engineer ❯ Opencraft (2020 - 21, 2023 - 24)

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]

Full Stack Engineer ❯ Shortform, Solar Accounts, McLaren College (2020 - 22)

  • Built REST API backends in Python and Node.js.
  • Converted design mockups into production Vue.js applications.
  • Improved AWS infrastructure reliability and cost efficiency.
  • Integrated end-to-end encryption for secure financial data handling.
  • Provided ongoing maintenance and support for production systems.

Instructor & Platform Developer ❯ McLaren College (2020 - 21)

  • 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.

Full Stack Engineer ❯ Tower Research Capital (2017 - 19)

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.

Full Stack Engineer ❯ Hello English (2015 - 17)

Founding Engineer ❯ Tickertape (2015 - 16)

  • Built the original Stock Screener product used by 200K+ users.
  • Designed UI, backend, data pipelines, and integrations.
  • Created internal libraries for REST and SOAP API integration.

Education

Jaypee University of Engineering and Technology (201216)

B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering

How I Work