Prabhanjan Padhye — Fullstack Engineer

Making human products

Based in Pune, India.

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 · NY, USA

  • 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 · NY, USA

  • 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.

  Tech: Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL

• Team Lead at MasaiSchool

  Mar 2020 – Nov 2022 · Banglore, India

  • 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.

  Tech: React, Python, Astro, Svelte

• Full-Stack Developer at Growerhub, Syngenta

  Oct 2018 – Mar 2020 · Pune, India

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

  Tech: next.js, typescript, geospatial

• Front-end Developer at Identity and Access Government

  Sep 2016 – Oct 2018 · Pune, India

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

  Tech: AngularJS, React

Projects

• DevTools-X

  Author

  Offline-first, cross-platform developer toolbox — dozens of everyday utilities in a single 10MB non-Electron app.

  • #1 ranking on Hacker News.
  • 1,500+ GitHub stars.
  • Ships for Windows, macOS, and Linux from one Tauri codebase.

  Tech: React, Rust, Tauri, TypeScript

  Live

  Source

• Awesome-ricing

  Author

  A curated list of tools and technology for ricing (customizing) the Linux desktop.

  • 4,300+ GitHub stars.

  Tech: Linux

  Source

• Delta

  Author

  A modern, self-hosted file uploader and URL shortener for your private cloud — low memory overhead and secure.

  • Multi-user, self-hosted architecture.
  • Built for high-throughput delivery.

  Tech: Node.js, Redis

  Source

• Truthy

  Author

  Cross-platform (desktop + mobile), secure 2FA / OTP manager — an open-source alternative to Authy and Aegis.

  Tech: React, TypeScript, Tauri

  Source

• Define

  Author

  A CLI that fetches word definitions from Merriam-Webster and prints them in a clean format.

  Tech: Rust

  Source

• Denoland/deno

  Contributor

  Contributor to the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime.

  • Fixed URLSearchParams.toString() to match browser behavior.
  • Added cargo-deny CI integration.
  • Contributed zsh completion documentation.

  Tech: Rust, TypeScript

  Source

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

  University of Pune · 2013 – 2017

Achievements

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

Certifications

• Cisco Certified Network Administrator — Cisco (2016)

Contact

[email protected]

Open to opportunities

Résumé

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