Prabhanjan Padhye, Fullstack Engineer

PrabhanjanPadhye

Fullstack Engineer

Making human products

Pune, India

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About

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.

Where I’ve worked

  • 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.

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.
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL

NY, USA

  • 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.
  • React
  • Python
  • Astro
  • Svelte

Banglore, India

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

Pune, India

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

Pune, India

What I work with

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Bash

Frameworks

  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • Solid
  • FastAPI
  • Axum
  • Tokio
  • Flask

Tools & Cloud

  • Linux
  • Git
  • Docker
  • Postgres
  • AWS
  • MongoDB
  • GCP
  • Podman
  • Dgraph

Sized by how often I reach for them, not by how good I think I am.

The paperwork

Education

  • Bachelor of Engineering, Computer ScienceUniversity of Pune · 2013 — 2017

Certifications

  • Cisco Certified Network AdministratorCisco · 2016

Things I’ve built

DevTools-XAuthor

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.
  • React
  • Rust
  • Tauri
  • TypeScript
Live — DevTools-XSource — DevTools-X

Awesome-ricingAuthor

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

  • 4,300+ GitHub stars.
  • Linux
Source — Awesome-ricing

DeltaAuthor

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.
  • Node.js
  • Redis
Source — Delta

TruthyAuthor

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

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tauri
Source — Truthy

DefineAuthor

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

  • Rust
Source — Define

Denoland/denoContributor

Contributor to the Deno TypeScript/JavaScript runtime.

  • Fixed URLSearchParams.toString() to match browser behavior.
  • Added cargo-deny CI integration.
  • Contributed zsh completion documentation.
  • Rust
  • TypeScript
Source — Denoland/deno

Wins

#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.

Now press one

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