About · backend engineer at HackerRank · based in Delhi

A developer & a designer.

I build scalable backends by day and chase quiet, considered design by night. Most of what I make starts as a careful sentence in a notebook — then becomes code that, with luck, no one notices.

// experience

Where I've spent my hours.

A timeline of roles, internships, and fellowships — listed newest first.

Mar 2025 — Present
HackerRank
SDE 2 · Backend

Building and maintaining scalable systems that power HackerRank's platform — the services that quietly carry millions of code submissions each month.

NowBackendScale
2024 — Mar 2025
HackerRank
SDE 1 · Backend

Joined full-time as a backend engineer. Contributed to core platform development and the work of keeping our backend services calm under load.

Full-timePlatform
2023
HackerRank
Software Developer Intern

Interned on the engineering team — backend development, my first encounters with production systems, and a great deal of learning by reading other people's code.

Internship
2022
Google Summer of Code · OpenWisp
Open-Source Contributor

Selected for GSoC 2022 with OpenWisp — an open-source network management project. Shipped core features alongside contributors from across the world.

GSoCOpen Source
2022
MLH Fellowship · Solana Labs
MLH Fellow

Joined the Major League Hacking Fellowship, working on collaborative projects with Solana Labs.

FellowshipWeb3
2022
Suborbital
GitHub Extern

Contributed to open-source projects at Suborbital as part of the GitHub Externship program — my first taste of working in public.

ExternshipOpen Source
// skills

Tools I reach for.

A small, reliable kit. The shape of it changes slowly, on purpose.

TypeScriptReactNext.jsnode.jsTailwindPythonpostgresqlgitFigmadocker
Based in
Delhi, India
Currently
SDE 2 · HackerRank
Languages
English, Hindi
Off the clock
Reading, walking

Want to build something quiet together?

I read every email. The best ones say what you're working on and what's getting in the way — I'll write back within a few days.