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title: "Ishanuj Hazarika - Software Development Engineer II in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Ishanuj Hazarika, SDE-II at Porter | ex-Ola | BITS Pilani based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code. Explore public work links including leetcode."
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# Ishanuj Hazarika on Tal

## Headline

SDE\-II at Porter \| ex\-Ola \| BITS Pilani

## About

Dynamic Software Engineer with 4 years of experience in three unicorn product\-based companies\. Proven expertise in overcoming complex challenges and developing scalable, highly available systems\. Instrumental in the early engineering team at an AI startup that reached unicorn status\.

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude code

## Work experience

Software Development Engineer II at Porter, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 10 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Working on order chaining feature to enhance driver allocation by considering order vicinity and dry\-run distance within a threshold of the drop location\. This optimization is set to increase driver utilization by 4% and improved driver earnings\.

Software Engineer at Krutrim, Aug 2023 \- Dec 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Contributed to the backend development of a Language Model \(LLM\) chat application, playing a key role in architecting scalable and efficient services\. • Solely developed and maintained a unified access management service for Krutrim ecosystem, serving as the authentication backbone for both B2B and B2C users\. Implemented OAuth2 for enhanced security and ensured a completely stateless architecture\. • Engineered an enterprise\-level Model\-as\-a\-Service application automating email response generation from the organization’s knowledge base, minimizing manual agent intervention in customer query handling\. • Established a streamlined pipeline for the extraction and integration of recurring newspaper data in regional languages, contributing significantly to the model’s linguistic diversity and accuracy\.

Software Engineer at Ola, Jul 2022 \- Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Part of the Asset Financing Management backend under OFS vertical \(Ola Financial Services\) • Engineered an agent dashboard to automate user whitelisting, reducing manual intervention and enhancing operational efficiency\. Held end\-to\-end ownership, encompassing backend and initial frontend development\. ◦ Seamlessly integrated Bajaj Finserv bank into the scooter loan journey, expanding loan coverage to 98% of pincodes, thereby amplifying financial service accessibility\. ◦ Implemented a booking amount feature with Kotak Bank, reducing customer drop\-offs and boosting loan conversion rates\. ◦ Resolved production issues swiftly as an oncall resource, ensuring uninterrupted service operations\.

Software Engineer Intern at ANS Commerce, Aug 2021 \- Dec 2021 · 5 mos, Remote, Worked in a marketing automation project, developed a replica for a marketing automation tool, Madgicx\. Worked with Facebook Graph API for the API endpoints, MySQL and core PHP, bootstrapped the frontend using best practices\.

## Education

Bachelor of Engineering \- BE, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

## Public links

- leetcode: https://leetcode\.com/akina86

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