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Featuring the work of Prabhanjan Padhye

The Lead · A Profile

Making human products

Full-stack engineer scaling production systems across AI, ed-tech, and developer tooling.

Full-stack engineer with 9+ years of experience scaling production systems across AI, ed-tech, and developer tooling. Open-source contributor with 5,000+ GitHub stars and a #1 Hacker News ranking. Proficient across Rust/Node services, React frontends, and multi-cloud infrastructure.

Career Dispatches

2025–Present · NY, USA

Lead Engineer at reps.ai

  • Architecting an AI-native platform from the ground up; overseeing system design, infrastructure, and engineering roadmap.
  • Building and leading a 6-person team for a high-impact AI product.
Architecting an AI-native platform from the ground up; overseeing system design, infrastructure, and engineering roadmap.

Nov 2022–2025 · NY, USA

Engineering Manager at Bigspring

  • Reduced API latency from 1s+ to ~50ms; sustained 8K active users/minute on a 300K-LOC Next.js/Node/GraphQL stack.
  • Designed multi-tenant infrastructure (isolation, billing, onboarding) for enterprise clients; led 10+ engineers.

Filed under: Next.js · Node.js · GraphQL

Mar 2020–Nov 2022 · Banglore, India

Team Lead at MasaiSchool

  • Built three ed-tech platforms (React, Python, Astro, Svelte); scaled the LMS to 2,500 concurrent students.
  • Authored technical curricula; mentored 5,000+ students in full-stack engineering.

Filed under: React · Python · Astro · Svelte

Oct 2018–Mar 2020 · Pune, India

Full-Stack Developer at Growerhub, Syngenta

  • Founding engineer on an agro-tech product; shipped two full-stack applications with geospatial mapping and image-processing pipelines.

Filed under: next.js · typescript · geospatial

Sep 2016–Oct 2018 · Pune, India

Front-end Developer at Identity and Access Government

  • Migrated a legacy AngularJS v1 suite to React in 3 months; established component patterns for the team.

Filed under: AngularJS · React

Classifieds

Situation Wanted

Open to opportunities. Enquiries of substance welcomed — the harder the problem, the better.

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Papers on File

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