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.

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.

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

Education

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

Achievements

• #1 on Hacker News — DevTools-X reached the top of Hacker News.
• All India Hackathon #1 — Won 2017 First prize in coding hackathon
• 5,000+ GitHub stars — Earned across open-source projects.

Certifications

• Cisco Certified Network Administrator — Cisco

Contact

[email protected] — Open to opportunities