Sid Siddhartha Rao

About Sid Siddhartha Rao

I’m a builder of platforms, teams, and markets—at the edge of infrastructure, AI, and scientific computing.Check out my Substack at https://srao.blog. Subscribe if you want solid engineering, product, and interview stories, advice, and info.Over the last two decades, I’ve helped launch billion-dollar platforms, scale global teams, and design new businesses from scratch. Most recently, I co-founded Positron Networks, where I lead the creation of Project Robbie, a high-performance AI training service validated by over 50 universities, labs, and enterprises. We built a product from zero to beta in 4 months, raised $1M+ in capital, and opened a $53M revenue pipeline—all while shipping production-quality ML infrastructure for real-world researchers.Before that, I spent a decade at Amazon Web Services, where I founded and led the Amazon Chime SDK. I hired and grew a 178-person global team, rebuilt legacy systems into over 300 microservices, architected machine learning algorithms into a global-scale media infrastructure, and negotiated strategic partnerships with companies such as Slack, PayPal, Intuit, and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Our systems scaled 12x during COVID-19, with zero downtime.I am now at Oracle, helping customers integrate Generative AI into their largest data engineering challenges. My team is at the forefront of customers, generative AI, and big data. If you are looking for a role, drop me a note!What I love doing:∙ Defining new market categories at the infrastructure-application frontier∙ Shipping AI/ML products for high-stakes users (researchers, healthcare, enterprise)∙ Leading from 0→1 and scaling product, engineering, and GTM operations∙ Driving narratives that move boards, founders, and Fortune 100 buyersIf you’re building a system that makes real-world intelligence faster, more accessible, or more powerful, I’d love to hear about it.

Experience

1. Sr Director, Generative Ai Customer Engagement

   Oracle

   Aug 2025 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   My team is responsible for deploying the Oracle AI Data Platform (AIDP) in the largest enterprise customers. We help customers leverage generative AI to drive intelligence, innovation, and creativity within these solutions. I lead a team of forward-deployed software engineers who have to orchestrate a broad range of services, from Apache Spark to Anthropic. We integrate a wide variety of data sources, from the Oracle Fusion applications to unstructured data and raw parquet. While we have a high hiring bar, reach out if you would like to join our team, especially if you have skills in Apache Spark, are a recognized leader in distributed systems, or are a pro in creating multi-agent generative AI services!

Education

• Purdue University

  Bachelor's degree, Chemistry

Skills

• Asp.net Ajax
• Call Recording
• J2ee Architecture
• Systems Engineering
• Hosted Voip
• Clr
• Solution Design
• Operating System Internals
• Software Development
• Javascript
• Ios Development
• Wsdl
• Sql Server 2000-2008
• .net Compact Framework
• Soap
• Telecommunications Billing
• Rtp
• Call Center Development
• Soa
• C#
• .net
• Multithreading
• Product Development
• Wcf
• System Integrators
• Linux
• Asp.net
• Business Intelligence Tools
• Call Processing
• Business Strategy
• Web Services
• Program Management
• Consumer Electronics
• Ims
• Win32
• Asterisk
• Broadsoft
• Voip
• Cloud Computing
• Linq