# Siddhant Khare

> Software engineer focused on sustainable AI-assisted engineering. OpenFGA maintainer. GitHub1s maintainer. Author of The Agentic Engineering Guide. Wrote "AI fatigue is real and nobody talks about it."

## About

Siddhant Khare is a software engineer focused on sustainable AI-assisted engineering: review burden, context discipline, agent security, observability, human-in-the-loop workflows, and production guardrails.

- Role: Software engineer focused on sustainable AI-assisted engineering
- Previous: Software Engineer at Ona (formerly Gitpod; OpenAI to acquire Ona)
- Maintainer: OpenFGA - first independent maintainer of a CNCF Incubating project (Google Zanzibar-style authorization)
- Maintainer: GitHub1s - 23K+ stars, led Vercel to Cloudflare migration
- Community: AWS Community Builder
- Speaker: KubeCon India 2025, AWS Community Day Bengaluru 2026
- Writing: 80+ articles on AI-assisted engineering, context discipline, review burden, agent security, observability, and the human side of software work
- Press: 50+ references and outlets including Hard Fork (NYT/The Verge), New York Post, Scripps News, Business Insider, Futurism, Martin Fowler, Tim Bray, Hacker News #1 (470+ points), sidebar.io #1, AFP wire syndications, National Business Daily (China), Chosun Ilbo (South Korea), The New Indian Express Magazine, and O'Reilly Radar

## Selected Work

- **Distill** - Deterministic context deduplication for LLMs. ~12ms per call, zero LLM calls, 30-40% RAG redundancy reduction. https://github.com/Siddhant-K-code/distill
- **The Agentic Engineering Guide** - 33-chapter open-source guide on context, backpressure, workflows, and building with AI without burning out. https://agents.siddhantkhare.com
- **OpenFGA** - Google Zanzibar-style authorization system. Siddhant is a core maintainer. https://github.com/openfga/openfga
- **GitHub1s** - One-second code reading for GitHub repos. Siddhant is a maintainer. https://github.com/conwnet/github1s
- **ThinkBudget** - Adaptive inference budget controller. Classifies query complexity in <1ms, caps thinking tokens per tier. OpenAI-compatible proxy. On PyPI: uv tool install thinkbudget. https://github.com/Siddhant-K-code/ThinkBudget

## Prior Systems Work

- **agent-trace** - Prior systems work for capturing and replaying agent tool use. It shaped Siddhant's thinking on inspectable AI-assisted work, audit trails, and production guardrails. https://github.com/Siddhant-K-code/agent-trace
- **agentic-authz** - Prior systems work combining OpenFGA-style authorization with MCP tool access. It shaped Siddhant's thinking on policy boundaries below agent workflows. https://github.com/Siddhant-K-code/agentic-authz

## Writing

All articles: https://siddhantkhare.com/writing

Recent topics: AI fatigue, review burden, context discipline, backpressure, agent security, observability, production guardrails, Claude Code, OpenFGA, and engineering culture.

Named "AI fatigue" as a phenomenon - essay reached #1 on Hacker News and was cited across Business Insider, Futurism, Hard Fork, Martin Fowler, Tim Bray, O'Reilly Radar, and other outlets.

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## Contact

- Email: hi@siddhantkhare.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/Siddhant-K-code
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/siddhant_K_code
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/siddhantkhare24

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