About

Siddharth Mittal is a Senior Software Engineer at Flipkart, based out of Bangalore. He is a highly skilled and creative team player with a strong knowledge of Data Structures and Algorithms and good problem-solving skills. Siddharth graduated from BITS Pilani in August 2013 with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Physics. Siddharth's current work at Flipkart involves working on the Decision Science Platform (DSP) team responsible for creating and maintaining a forecasting platform that can run statistical and machine learning algorithms written in 'R' and 'Python' to run at scale while providing certain guarantees like data completeness, consistency, etc. He has also worked on building a deviation/rca platform on top of DSP to find the root cause of the deviation between plan and actuals to provide actionable items to improve forecast accuracy for the future. Siddharth has also worked on the Integrated Planning Platform (IPP) team responsible for creating a planning platform, a single destination to meet the needs of all business teams doing Demand planning, Supply planning, and Inventory Planning. Prior to his current role, Siddharth worked as a Software Engineer at Flipkart on the Demand Forecasting Platform team, building a configurable platform to onboard statistical forecasting models written in 'R' to generate demand forecast used in downstream systems. He has also worked at Yahoo as a Software Engineer on the Custom Branded Experiences team, responsible for the development of reusable web modules for advertisers ensuring performance, scalability, and consistency across multiple browsers and devices. Siddharth's education history includes a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science from BITS Pilani, where he achieved an impressive 8.23/10. Siddharth has a diverse tech stack, including expertise in Java, MapReduce, ML, Research Scientist, Hadoop, test, Javascript, Python, Apache Hive, Web, Selenium, Frontend, and Backend. With nearly 10 years of relevant experience, Siddharth is an asset to any team he joins.