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.
02 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE CODE
Systems thinker.
Detail obsessive.
Always a builder.
I’m Yashika, a backend engineer at HackerRank. I build scalable systems, contribute to open source, and care about how software feels to the people using it.
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SDE 2 · Backend engineering
SINCE MAR 2025
HOME BASE
Bangalore, India↗ 12.97° N / 77.59° E
English & Hindi
AWAY FROM THE KEYBOARDReading.
Reading.
Walking.
Resetting.
01 / EXPERIENCE
The journey
so far.
From working in public to building for production.
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.
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.
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.
MLH Fellowship · Solana Labs
MLH Fellow
Joined the Major League Hacking Fellowship, working on collaborative projects with Solana Labs.
Suborbital
GitHub Extern
Contributed to open-source projects at Suborbital as part of the GitHub Externship program — my first taste of working in public.
02 / TOOLKIT
Good tools.
Better questions.
01Languages
- TypeScript
- Python
02Application
- React
- Next.js
- Node.js
03Infrastructure
- PostgreSQL
- Docker
- Git
04Interface
- Tailwind CSS
- Figma