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Siddhant is a Software Engineer working independently and an OpenFGA maintainer. He has worked on developer platform and AI infrastructure systems at Ona, and he has written open-source tools and a guide on agentic engineering. He helps engineers build AI agent infrastructure, add authorization and observability controls, and start open-source projects.
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I help engineers go deeper into AI infrastructure: agent security, context engineering, observability, authorization, evals, and the systems work behind production AI.
Most people do not need another prompt trick. They need to understand the layer underneath: how agents get context, what tools they can call, how permissions are scoped, how failures are traced, how cost is measured, and how humans stay in control.
I maintain OpenFGA, a CNCF Incubating authorization system based on Google Zanzibar-style access control. I also wrote The Agentic Engineering Guide, a 33-chapter open-source guide on context engineering, agent security, authorization, observability, backpressure, and team practices for AI-assisted engineering.
My work has sat across developer platforms, AI agent infrastructure, web infrastructure, growth systems, and open source. At Ona, formerly Gitpod - acq. OpenAI, I worked on developer platform and AI infrastructure systems for a product used by 1.7M+ developers. I also owned major parts of the website, web infrastructure, analytics, and growth experimentation stack.
I wrote "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it", which reached #1 on Hacker News and was covered or cited across 50+ outlets, including Business Insider, Futurism, O'Reilly Radar, Hard Fork, Martin Fowler, and Tim Bray.
My open-source work includes:
- OpenFGA: fine-grained authorization, CNCF Incubating
- Distill: deterministic context deduplication for LLMs
- ThinkBudget: adaptive inference budget control
- LLMTraceFX: GPU-level inference profiling
- agentic-authz and agent-trace: prior systems work around agent authorization and observability
I can help with:
- Building AI agent infrastructure from scratch
- Understanding context engineering, RAG, evals, and agent workflows
- Designing agent security and authorization with OpenFGA, ReBAC, MCP, and scoped delegation
- Adding observability, traces, audit logs, and cost controls to AI systems
- Building open-source projects that compound into real credibility
- Writing technical content that gets noticed without sounding generic
- Moving from a nontraditional background into remote, AI, infra, and devtools roles
I am most useful if you want to become the kind of engineer who can build the systems behind AI products, not just use AI tools.
5 out of 5 stars
Siddhant is a great mentor. He is very knowledgable in his field and really helped me clarify my goals, and showed me what actions to take to reach them. He was very patient with my process, and really understood what I wanted to accomplish. I would highly recommend him.
Standard Plan • 1 month
5 out of 5 stars
Siddhant is knowledgeable and technically very solid. His response time is quick, he is flexible and goes out of his way to help resolve any queries . Its been couple of months since I got him as my mentor and I am learning alot from him . I would like to continue this relationship even going forward as well.
Standard Plan • 2 months
5 out of 5 stars
Contributing to open source initially felt overwhelming, as I wasn’t sure how to approach it. I reached out to Siddhant, who has extensive experience with open source contributions, for guidance. He recommended specific types of repositories to explore and provided concrete steps to get started. Beyond that, he also shared valuable advice on navigating today’s challenging job market, which has been incredibly helpful. With his guidance, I feel confident that I’ll be able to make meaningful contributions to open source projects.
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Software Engineer building reliable infrastructure for AI Agents. OpenFGA Core Maintainer (CNCF Incubating). Engineer @ Ona (formerly Gitpod). International speaker. …
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33 chapters on context engineering, agent security, cost control, and team practices for building AI agent infrastructure in production.
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