Sidhant Bhayana
Platform Engineering at SiriusXM
- Role
- Associate Director, Software Engineering at SiriusXM
- Location
- San Francisco, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Sidhant Bhayana
Strategic engineering leader dedicated to building high-leverage platforms that multiply developer productivity and accelerate business innovation. I transform engineering organizations by creating paved paths that make it easy for developers to ship fast and reliably.I lead the Cloud Platform Enablement team, chartered with delivering opinionated \'Paved Path\' and scalable cloud standards that empower teams to ship safely and fast.MY IMPACT IN CLOUD PLATFORM ENABLEMENT:Developer Experience- Designed and Own the Paved Path: TypeScript CDK constructs, service bootstrapping, standardized CI/CD, and observability-as-code- Reduced time-to-first-deploy from weeks to ~2 hours by standardizing service creation experience - We are recognized as the go-to AWS experts by our users, providing architectural guidance and establishing opinionated cloud standards.Cloud FinOps & Governance- Delivered >$400K in annualized AWS savings via Graviton adoption, autoscaling, and ephemeral environments- Achieved >95% tagging coverage for FinOps tracking and visibility.Scale & Adoption:* Drove >80% adoption of our CDK constructs for net-new builds and onboarded 40+ workload teams.* Authored multiple Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) to establish foundational standards.KEY PRIOR EXPERIENCE (Sr. Staff SRE, Pandora)Foundational SRE & Reliability- Built the company\'s first SRE team from the ground up, shifting the organization from reactive firefighting to proactive reliability engineering- Enabled Push-on-Green across 150+ micro-services to increase deployment frequency 2-3x.Observability & Enablement- Achieved >85% tracing coverage (OTel + APM) for faster incident triage- Launched a self-service performance testing framework, saving >8 hours per developer per release cycle - Embedded SLOs as default practice, resulting in >85% of new services launching with SLOs.SPECIALTIES: Platform Engineering | SRE | Developer Experience (DevEx)| AWS | Observability | Golden Path | IaCOpen to connecting and discussing platform strategy!
Experience
Associate Director, Software Engineering
Feb 2026 — Present
Education
Kurukshetra University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science
Skills
- Agile Project Management
- Hp Performance Center
- Portfolio Optimization
- Project Management
- Web Services
- Loadrunner
- Continuous Integration
- Shell Scripting
- Javascript
- Core Java
- Testing
- Test Estimation
- Neoload
- Java
- Xml
- Project Estimation
- Sdlc
- Continuous Process Improvement
- Manual Testing
- Project Portfolio Management
- Sql
- Quality Center
- Wily Introscope
- Performance Tuning
- Soapui
- Python
- Strategic Planning
- Test Planning
- Load Testing
- Pl/Sql
- Software Project Management
- Weblogic
- Microsoft Sql Server
- Cross-Functional Team Leadership
- Continuous Delivery
- Jmeter
- Performance Testing
- Agile Methodologies
- Test Cases
- Management
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