Software Engineer at Ona (formerly Gitpod) | OpenFGA Maintainer
Building the future of software development through cloud-native developer tools and scalable authorization systems.
Building some fun/random/interesting AI projects & MCP servers along the way ⚡️
- Engineering @ Gitpod: Architecting Cloud Development Environments (CDEs) that serve 1.7M+ developers globally.
- Open Source Leadership: Maintaining critical infrastructure projects with millions of users.
- Technical Mentoring: Guiding developers through MentorCruise and community initiatives.
- Industry Speaking: Sharing insights at conferences on developer productivity and system architecture.
- OpenFGA - Google Zanzibar-inspired authorization engine (Okta/Auth0)
- github1s - Instant VS Code experience for GitHub repos (23K+ stars)
- Greenstand - Environmental impact tracking platform
- Indian Open Source Foundation - Promoting OSS in India
- LinkedIn: siddhantkhare24
- Twitter: @siddhantkhare
- Email: siddhantkhare2694@gmail.com
- MentorCruise: Book a mentoring session
- GitHub Sponsors: Support my open source work
My Open Source Contribution Detailed Insights
Some of my recent PRs: https://www.myprs.xyz/Siddhant-K-code
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- Serverless economics: why Cloud Run crushes App Runner (until it doesn’t)
- How to make AI code edits more accurate
- An easy way to stop Claude code from forgetting the rules
- Claude code is costly - unless you do this
- Extending Claude's Brain: How MCP makes AI actually useful for developers
- How docs AI search works: Mintlify-Style with OpenAI Agents SDK
- Isolating AI Agents with DevContainer: A secure and scalable approach
- Tackling Cold Starts in AWS Lambda: A Deep Dive with LLRT
- How we slashed CI build time using Go’s cache
- Binary embedding: shrink vector storage by 95%