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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