Nagakishore Sidde

About Nagakishore Sidde

STRATEGIC ENGINEERING LEADER | 20 Years of Impact at Google, Unacademy, and WalmartI am an engineering leader specializing in steering large-scale organizations through strategic technical turnaround and complex systems scaling. Throughout my career, I have focused on driving engineering and operational excellence, leading multi-functional organizations of up to 120+ professionals through a leadership layer of Senior Engineering Managers and Engineering Managers.CORE IMPACT-• ORGANIZATIONAL SCALE: Currently steering the GDC India Compute & SysTest organization at Google, leading a 50-member multi-functional organization through a leadership layer of 5 Engineering Managers. Previously built Walmart\'s Post-Transactions vertical from India, scaling a 60+ member team to support multibillion-dollar annual GMV.• FINANCIAL STEWARDSHIP: Spearheaded a massive turnaround initiative that achieved a 63.7% reduction in annual tech spend within 12 months by optimizing cloud infrastructure and operational toolsets.• SOVEREIGN AI: Spearheaded the NPI for Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) Air-Gapped; successfully integrated the Dell XE9680 (8xH200 GPUs) into the GDC instance family to enable Sovereign AI workloads.• ENGINEERING & OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Achieved 80% improvement in p95 class start times for millions of learners at Unacademy. Engineered an in-house CRM at Unacademy to handle terabytes of data with millisecond response times. Instituted an outcome-driven and AI-first culture across the SDLC at Google, achieving a 90% reduction in presubmit times, 10x faster test execution, and 90% automated regression greenness.• STRATEGIC PRODUCT IMPACT: Reported directly to the CTO at BankBazaar to drive the roadmap for highest-growth consumer channels, delivering three-digit revenue growth through mobile app channels and cross-sell engineering initiatives.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineering Manager

   Google

   Jun 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   ORGANIZATIONAL LEADERSHIP-• Strategic Oversight: Steering the Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) India Compute and SysTest organization; currently leading a 50-member multi-functional organisation through a leadership layer of 5 Engineering Managers and staff engineers. • GDC Connected Build-out: Scaled a 50+ member multi-functional organization for GDC Connected in India; prioritized the stabilization of Infra/NPI, UI and System Validation teams through strategic leadership hiring while building Engineering Productivity (Platform) and Operations teams from the ground up.TECHNICAL INNOVATION & EFFICIENCY -• Sovereign AI Infrastructure: Spearheaded the NPI for GDC Air-Gapped (Dell + H200); successfully integrated the Dell XE9680 (8xH200 GPUs) into the GDCag instance family to enable sovereign AI workloads. • Engineering Excellence: Instituted an outcome-driven culture, achieving a 90% reduction in presubmit times and a 10x improvement in test execution within CI/CD pipelines. • Operational Excellence: Increased automated regression greenness to 90% and overall automation rates to over 85%. • GenAI Pioneering: Leading the integration of GenAI for automated test generation, coding assistance, bug triaging, and debugging across the SDLC.

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  B.E(Hons), B.E

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Microservices
• Java
• Git
• Jersey
• Oracle
• Cloud Computing
• Docker
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Middleware
• Java Concurrency
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Http
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Https
• Xml
• Apache Mesos
• Jmx
• Websockets
• Android Development
• Marathon
• Apache Zookeeper
• Linux
• Http2
• Multi-Tenancy
• Software Development