$180 / month
3 calls per month (45min/call)
Unlimited Q&A via chat
Expect responses in 24 hours or less
Hands-on support
I build AI agent infrastructure at Ona (formerly Gitpod) and maintain OpenFGA, the open-source authorization engine under the CNCF.
I wrote "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it," which hit #1 on Hacker News, was covered by Business Insider and Futurism, and was cited on Hard Fork, the New York Times tech podcast. My piece on agent backpressure was featured in Pointer.
I wrote The Agentic Engineering Guide - a free, open-source book on context engineering, agent security, authorization, observability, and team practices. 33 chapters. 240+ pages. Read at agents.siddhantkhare.com.
My open-source work includes OpenFGA (Zanzibar-style authorization, used by Okta and Twitch), Distill (context deduplication for LLMs), agentic-authz (authorization for AI agent tool access), and LLMTraceFX (GPU-level inference profiling).
I started at a Tier 3 college in India, interned at GitHub, and have worked remotely for global companies since. I know what it takes to break in from a non-traditional background.
I can help with:
- Building and shipping AI agent infrastructure
- Open-source contributions (first PR to maintainer)
- Landing remote engineering jobs from India or anywhere
- Writing technical content that gets noticed (blogs, HN, Twitter)
- Career strategy for devtools, AI, and infrastructure engineers
More about me: siddhantkhare.com
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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