I am Siddardh Padyala, a passionate backend systems engineer working as Software Engineer at Google. My interests include backend/systems programming, and I have experience in Golang, Python, Kotlin, Kubernetes, Open Metrics, Serverless Computing, Elixir, Nginx, Redis, MySQL and SQLite. I love technologies related to observability and distributed systems but love not having to need them more.

I believe in:

  • keeping things simple.
  • breaking complex problems into smaller, more manageable pieces.
  • idea that no code is better than any code
  • Murphy’s Law
  • Conway’s Law
  • Simplicity and conceptual compression

Work Experience

  • Software Engineer at Google (2020 - Present)
  • Software Engineer at Agrostar (2016-2020)

Current Interests

  • Elixir
  • SQLite
  • LLMs and Agents
  • Monitoring
  • Lua