SIDDHARTH CHOUDHARY
Summary
Senior Principal Engineer and Cloud Architect experienced in designing hyperscale distributed systems for enterprise cloud platforms. Delivered mission-critical migration and real-time data systems processing petabyte-scale workloads with 99.99% availability, driving multi-million-dollar revenue growth and platform scalability. Led large-scale cloud-native transformations across Microsoft Azure, VMware multi-cloud SaaS, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, facilitating enterprise cloud adoption through resilient multi-region architectures.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Principal Engineer
Oracle
Seattle, Washington
12.2024 - Current
- Architected OCI's AI Marketplace platform for third-party LLMs, Agentic AI, and AI SaaS, enabling global availability across OCI regions and realms with secure tenant isolation, controlled model onboarding, IAM integration, and compliance-aligned deployment and billing systems.
- Defined and drove the architecture for OCI Marketplace Private and Multi-Party Private Offers, establishing pricing models, publisher onboarding workflows, governance guardrails, and cross-region strategy, enabling $20M+ in enterprise cloud and AI transactions.
- Established architectural standards and reusable design patterns for marketplace and AI platform initiatives; led architecture/design reviews to enhance scalability, security, and operational excellence.
- Partnered with engineering, product, security, finance, and operations leadership to align platform design with monetization, regulatory, and enterprise requirements, contributing to OCI AI roadmap planning.
- Led re-architecture of M360 platform into cloud-native OCI service and designed Oracle Cloud Migration (OCM) service; built OpenShift usage telemetry and revenue tracking systems, driving a 15% quarterly revenue increase.
Principal Engineer
VMware
Bellevue, WA
03.2020 - 10.2025
- Spearheaded re-architecture of VMware's multi-cloud commerce platform, achieving 95% uptime and 60% faster transactions.
- Optimized architecture of Atlas developer platform, achieving 99.999% uptime and increasing user adoption by 15%.
- Innovated AI-driven predictive scaling and automated disaster recovery, enhancing application performance by 35% and safeguarding $5 million daily revenue.
- Engineered real-time data processing pipeline, accelerating financial reporting by 98% and reducing downtime by 25%.
- Revolutionized multi-cloud workload management, reducing provisioning time by 65% and migration downtime to under 30 minutes.
- Delivered over $20 million in annual cost savings and reduced churn by 15% through intelligent cloud resource management.
- Supported $61 billion Broadcom acquisition by leading critical cloud data migrations, generating $19 million in recurring revenue.
- Mentored junior engineers on architectural strategies and career development, fostering their growth and technical skills.
Software Engineer
MicrosoM
Redmond, WA
11.2013 - 03.2020
- Led the architecture of geo-distributed cloud infrastructure supporting 100M+ active users (1B+ downloads), reducing cross-device latency by 70% and enabling sub-250ms real-time communication at global scale.
- Designed scalable WebSocket-based communication frameworks and dynamic routing systems, enhancing reliable, low-latency data exchange across multi-region deployments.
- Built resilient multi-region deployment and intelligent auto-scaling capabilities, achieving 99.999% availability and $15M in annual infrastructure savings.
- Drove secure engineering practices across CI/CD, compliance, and operational governance under Microsoft's One Engineering System standards, facilitating scalable and secure service delivery.
- Contributed to Your Phone App (YPP) by integrating device-to-PC connectivity for instant access to messages, photos, apps, and notifications.
Member of Technical Staff
PerRno Inc
Los Gatos, California
09.2012 - 08.2013
- Architect, design, and develop Master Controller for Software Defined Network clients utilizing REST API.
- Design and develop selection strategies for policy framework and control plane module.
- Proposed technical feasibility solutions for policy framework enabling low-latency client selections.
- Developed billing system and integrated with Zuora SOAP API to enhance financial operations.
- Streamlined deployment process by adopting continuous integration, improving release cycles.
Sr. Software Engineer
CenturyLink Inc
Santa Clara, California
02.2010 - 08.2012
- Designed and developed cloud solution for parallel provision framework, facilitating support for multiple concurrent APIs.
- Built application platform foundation enabling common provision framework for multiple APIs in VMware vCloud API enterprise architectures and services.
- Designed and implemented an image upload feature, allowing customers to bring their own VMs.
- Automated cleanup process, enhancing resource management by removing unused VMs and network components.
- Formerly (Savvis Communications)
Assistant System Engineer
TCS
Chennai, India
11.2005 - 08.2007
- Client: Verizon Tampa, Florida - Assignment Activation Inventory System and Design Service - Module Lead
- Conducted performance tuning, enabling system to handle target of 3000 concurrent transactions.
- Contributed to the primary module of a project, resulting in savings of $30 million.
- Performed regression and system-level testing, ensuring high software quality standards.
- Analyzed query performance and implemented various query and code optimizations.
- Interacted with clients to present proposals and system enhancements, driving user satisfaction.
Education
Masters - computer science
New York University (Formerly NYU Poly)
New YorkBachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Anna University
Chennai, IndiaSkills
- Java
- C#
- Python
- AWS
- GCP
- Microsoft Azure
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Git
- REST APIs
- MS SQL Server
- MySQL
- NoSQL databases
- Windows
- Linux
- Distributed systems
- Real-time communication
- IntelliJ IDEA
- Visual Studio
Timeline
Senior Principal Engineer
Oracle
12.2024 - Current
Principal Engineer
VMware
03.2020 - 10.2025
Software Engineer
MicrosoM
11.2013 - 03.2020
Member of Technical Staff
PerRno Inc
09.2012 - 08.2013
Sr. Software Engineer
CenturyLink Inc
02.2010 - 08.2012
Assistant System Engineer
TCS
11.2005 - 08.2007
Masters - computer science
New York University (Formerly NYU Poly)
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Anna University