Siddhartha Cingh Arora

Co-Founder / CTO at Mela Social Inc.
Redmond, Washington, United States

Siddhartha Cingh Arora is currently Co-Founder and CTO at Mela Social Inc. He has previously held senior engineering and management roles at Amazon and Microsoft. His expertise includes engineering leadership, MVP development, large-scale service delivery, data engineering, and geospatial machine learning models.

  • Mela Social Inc. Co-Founder / CTO 2025–present · current
  • Microsoft Partner Group Engineering Manager 2023–2025, Principal Group Engineering Manager 2020–2023, Principal Group Engineering Manager 2017–2020, Principal Engineering Manager 2014–2017, Principal Development Lead 2013–2014, Senior Development Lead 2009–2012, Senior Software Development Engineer 2006–2009, Software Development Engineer 2000–2006 · past
  • Amazon Senior Software Development Manager 2012–2013 · past
  • Tata Consultancy Services Assistant Analyst 1997–1999 · past

Education

  • University of Washington Master of Science, Information Management · 2003–2005
  • National Institute of Engineering Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science · 1992–1996
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya

Organizations

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  • Mela Social Inc. Co-Founder / CTO 2025–present · current
  • Microsoft Partner Group Engineering Manager 2023–2025, Principal Group Engineering Manager 2020–2023, Principal Group Engineering Manager 2017–2020, Principal Engineering Manager 2014–2017, Principal Development Lead 2013–2014, Senior Development Lead 2009–2012, Senior Software Development Engineer 2006–2009, Software Development Engineer 2000–2006 · past
  • Amazon Senior Software Development Manager 2012–2013 · past

Education

  • University of Washington Master of Science, Information Management · 2003–2005
  • National Institute of Engineering Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science · 1992–1996
  • Kendriya Vidyalaya

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