Prabhanjan Padhye — Fullstack Engineer

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.

Experience

Lead Engineer at reps.ai (2025–Present): 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.
Engineering Manager at Bigspring (Nov 2022–2025): 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.
Team Lead at MasaiSchool (Mar 2020–Nov 2022): 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.
Full-Stack Developer at Growerhub, Syngenta (Oct 2018–Mar 2020): Founding engineer on an agro-tech product; shipped two full-stack applications with geospatial mapping and image-processing pipelines.
Front-end Developer at Identity and Access Government (Sep 2016–Oct 2018): Migrated a legacy AngularJS v1 suite to React in 3 months; established component patterns for the team.

Education

Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Science — University of Pune (2013–2017)

Skills

Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, Python, Bash
Frameworks: React, Next.js, Solid, Astro, Axum, Tokio, FastAPI, Flask
Tools & Cloud: AWS, GCP, Docker, Podman, Postgres, MongoDB, Dgraph, Linux, Git

Projects

DevTools-X: Offline-first, cross-platform developer toolbox — dozens of everyday utilities in a single 10MB non-Electron app.
awesome-ricing: A curated list of tools and technology for ricing (customizing) the Linux desktop.
Delta: A modern, self-hosted file uploader and URL shortener for your private cloud — low memory overhead and secure.
Truthy: Cross-platform (desktop + mobile), secure 2FA / OTP manager — an open-source alternative to Authy and Aegis.
define: A CLI that fetches word definitions from Merriam-Webster and prints them in a clean format.
denoland/deno: Contributor to the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime.

Achievements

#1 on Hacker News
All India Hackathon #1
5,000+ GitHub stars

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Administrator — Cisco

Contact

[email protected] — Open to opportunities

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