Headline

Building AI Brain @ Rapido | Architecting Distributed Systems at Scale | Maps | Search | Payments | Real-Time Systems

About

• 6+ years of rich software engineering experience with focus on building backend systems. • Proven expertise in designing scalable, fault-tolerant backend systems with high-level and low-level design, database architecture, microservices, event driven architecture, and AI / ML-driven performance optimizations. • Proficient in designing, coding, testing, debugging and troubleshooting. • Ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with various team members. • Familiar with Agile methodologies and software development life cycle. • Excellent communication, problem-solving, and organizational skills. • Have Experience working in early-stage startups and MNCs. Key Skills - Software Engineering, System Designs, DB Designs, Distributed Systems, Event-driven architecture, Performance Tuning, AI/ML driven performance optimizations, Python, Django, Java, Elasticsearch, WebSockets, Asynchronous tasks(Celery, Redis), Multithreading AWS Services (EC2, ELB, ECS, CDN, S3, RDS, AppSync, Lambda etc.); DevOps (Ansible, Terraform, Linux, Git, CI/CD..) PostgreSQL, MySQL, Snowflake, MongoDB Some Achievements - * RedHat Certified in Linux 8. * AMCAT Certified. * Solved over 500+ problems on various competitive programming sites. * Qualified in Google Code Jam 2020. Good exposure in data science technologies such as Big data hadoop, HDFS, Mapreduce, HIVE, AWS Cloud, Machine Learning, Computer Vision. HackerRank Profile - https://www.hackerrank.com/Harsh_Gupta10 LeetCode Profile - https://www leetcode.com/harshhg Github Profile - https://www.github.com/harshhg My YouTube channel - https://youtube.com/channel/UCu5b-MLRWuLSOlhgfxaftdQ

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

antigravity

claude code

claude

cursor

gemini

geminicli

Work experience

SDE - 4 at Rapido, Jun 2026 - Present · 5 mos, Building & Scaling Rapido

SDE - 3 at Apna Mart, Jun 2025 - May 2026 · 1 yr, Launched a new vertical Bill Payments (0 to 1), owning product scoping, architecture, implementation, and third-party integration end to end, single handedly. • Optimized Search Performance by 75% bringing down p95 from 300ms to 75ms, and p99 to 99ms. • Architected and single-handedly built a Recommendation system, covering data analysis and model training to product strategy, architecture design, and end-to-end implementation, driving a 20% increase in AOV. • Built the Custom Search Ranking from scratch allowing different types of scoring strategies based on user popularity, mass popularity, and keyword ranking, increasing ATC rate by 15%. • Designed and implemented a distributed real-time event ingestion pipeline processing 1M+ events/day. • Introduced Card Payment Mode with custom offers & cashback, increasing AOV by 5%

Senior Software Engineer at Blue Yonder, Oct 2023 - May 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, • Architected a scalable backend with ML pipeline operating on 2B+ transactions, reducing processing time by 85% and operating cost by 70%. • Implemented asynchronous microservices framework with multi-processing/multi-threading, achieving high resiliency and 3x throughput. • Developed dynamic provisioning of microservices, reducing 10% of additional cloud services cost.

Senior Software Engineer at Two Point One, Jan 2023 - Sep 2023 · 9 mos, • Leading, Architecting and Developing the MVP backend from scratch building REST APIs, DB architecture, hiring and mentoring new team members. • Optimized APIs and DB queries, achieving 1.5x performance boost and 20% CPU load reduction on 10M+ users with 100,000 DAU. • Reduced processing time by 10x for long running heavy background tasks by leveraging multi-threading and leveraging the CPU effectively.

Software Development Engineer - II at Two Point One, Sep 2021 - Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos, Remote, • Developed a real-time "Search Auto-complete" feature on a database with 1M+ rows. • Built a real-time Messaging System from scratch using WebSockets, ensuring seamless communication. • Optimized search APIs with Elasticsearch, achieving a 90% boost in query performance and slashing computation time from 40 seconds to sub-1 second, enabling real-time search at scale

Software Development Engineer at Two Point One, Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos, • Architecting, implementing, leading new features, involving scalable architecture, complex data models, robust async tasks, and background cron jobs. • Automated infrastructure provisioning of projects, reducing manual effort by 98% and project setup time by 90%. • Led Cloud Automation of various AWS services like EC2, ECS, RDS, CDN, S3, LB, Redis etc improving deployment speed and reliability.

Data Science Internship at AdHoc Networks Infotech Private Limited, Feb 2019 - Jul 2019 · 6 mos, Greater Jaipur Area, Learned and worked on various technologies like - Big data hadoop, Spark, Linux, Python, AWS, Ansible, Machine Learning, Computer Vision etc.

Education

Masters, Computer Science, Rajasthan Technical University, Kota