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Mayank Nader

Senior Software Engineer @Hiver | ex HackerRank, Google Summer Of Code Alum @Creative Commons

Bengaluru

6+ years of work experience

Hiver
Jan 20251 yr 8 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Hiver
Jan 20241 yrDec 2024

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

HackerRank
Jul 20221 yr 7 mosJan 2024

HackerRank
Jan 20211 yr 6 mosJun 2022

Creative Commons
May 20204 mosAug 2020

• Added new features to CC Search Extension to make it a competent and lightweight alternative to CC Search. The enhancements were targeted at heavy consumers of Openly-Licensed Images. Since the enhancements, the number of weekly users has grown 2 fold (10,000+ weekly users on Chrome, Firefox, and Opera combined). • Successfully migrated to CC-Catalog API v1.0 and coordinated with a UX designer and CC engineers to integrate Vocabulary (design system for web-facing Creative Commons apps). • Improvements to the bookmarks section: Scaled it to hold 6x the number of images and also Implemented caching. Refactored the sync storage schema to make it more robust and extensible. • Published backward compatible code to production and also added support for one more browser - Microsoft Edge.
Creative Commons
Sep 20196 mosFeb 2020

• Contributed features and patches to the Lektor based CC Open-Source Blog. Was designated the role of "Project Collaborator" which let me triage issues and review PRs of other contributors on that project. Site: https://opensource.creativecommons.org/ Github repo: https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source • Became the "Project Maintainer" of the Search Extension. Engaged in discussions with users and contributors to incorporate various new features and recommendations. The project has 33+ code contributors. • I also handle the addon-store accounts/portals of all the 4 browsers which I use to release new versions and manage the extension in production. There have been 17+ releases.
Creative Commons
May 20194 mosAug 2019

• Planned, proposed, and developed CC Search Extension, an Open-Source Cross-Browser extension. It lets users search, filter, and use images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses. • Did intuitive integration with major portions of CC Catalog API (REST API for accessing public domain digital media). • Implemented features like one-click easy attribution, options page for custom settings, image bookmarks section, exporting and importing bookmarks, dark mode, and much more. • I have been developing and maintaining the project since its inception. The project was started from scratch during GSoC 2019 and the first version was released on Chrome and Firefox in October 2019. Now it has 30+ code contributors, 17+ releases, 10,000+ weekly users, and availability on 4 browser add-on stores (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge).
GitHub
@makkoncept
Personal portfoliomayanknader.com

Mayank’s AI Stack

claude code
claude code
codex
codex
mcp
mcp
obsidian
obsidian
opencode
opencode

Education

DIT University

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science

DIT University

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Headline

Senior Software Engineer @Hiver | ex HackerRank, Google Summer Of Code Alum @Creative Commons

About

I’m a backend engineer with 6+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems, internal platforms, and developer-facing tools across SaaS and open source. At Hiver, I joined as a founding engineer for Hiver for Outlook and helped scale the product from inception to $400+ ARR. I’ve worked on high-impact features like Automations, SLAs, and Shared Mailboxes, while also owning critical services such as the Sync Engine and Search Service. Previously at HackerRank, I built a reliable workflow engine with a custom DSL for extensibility, developed a multi-source code analysis platform, and led the removal of a decade-old A/B testing framework across backend and frontend. I enjoy solving messy, high-impact backend problems: designing reliable systems, improving performance, simplifying architecture, and mentoring engineers along the way. I care deeply about building systems that are both scalable and maintainable. Outside of work, I’ve been a long-time open source contributor through Creative Commons, where I built and maintained the CC Search Extension used by 10K+ weekly users across major browsers. Always curious about backend architecture, distributed systems, developer tooling, and products at scale.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

codex

mcp

obsidian

opencode

Work experience

Senior Software Engineer at Hiver, Jan 2025 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Engineer 2 at Hiver, Jan 2024 - Dec 2024 · 1 yr, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

Software Development Engineer 2 at HackerRank, Jul 2022 - Jan 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

Software Development Engineer at HackerRank, Jan 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

Google Summer of Code Developer at Creative Commons, May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos, • Added new features to CC Search Extension to make it a competent and lightweight alternative to CC Search. The enhancements were targeted at heavy consumers of Openly-Licensed Images. Since the enhancements, the number of weekly users has grown 2 fold (10,000+ weekly users on Chrome, Firefox, and Opera combined). • Successfully migrated to CC-Catalog API v1.0 and coordinated with a UX designer and CC engineers to integrate Vocabulary (design system for web-facing Creative Commons apps). • Improvements to the bookmarks section: Scaled it to hold 6x the number of images and also Implemented caching. Refactored the sync storage schema to make it more robust and extensible. • Published backward compatible code to production and also added support for one more browser - Microsoft Edge.

Volunteer software developer at Creative Commons, Sep 2019 - Feb 2020 · 6 mos, • Contributed features and patches to the Lektor based CC Open-Source Blog. Was designated the role of "Project Collaborator" which let me triage issues and review PRs of other contributors on that project. Site: https://opensource.creativecommons.org/ Github repo: https://github.com/creativecommons/creativecommons.github.io-source • Became the "Project Maintainer" of the Search Extension. Engaged in discussions with users and contributors to incorporate various new features and recommendations. The project has 33+ code contributors. • I also handle the addon-store accounts/portals of all the 4 browsers which I use to release new versions and manage the extension in production. There have been 17+ releases.

Google Summer of Code Developer at Creative Commons, May 2019 - Aug 2019 · 4 mos, • Planned, proposed, and developed CC Search Extension, an Open-Source Cross-Browser extension. It lets users search, filter, and use images in the public domain and under Creative Commons licenses. • Did intuitive integration with major portions of CC Catalog API (REST API for accessing public domain digital media). • Implemented features like one-click easy attribution, options page for custom settings, image bookmarks section, exporting and importing bookmarks, dark mode, and much more. • I have been developing and maintaining the project since its inception. The project was started from scratch during GSoC 2019 and the first version was released on Chrome and Firefox in October 2019. Now it has 30+ code contributors, 17+ releases, 10,000+ weekly users, and availability on 4 browser add-on stores (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Microsoft Edge).

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science, DIT University

Public links

github: https://github.com/makkoncept

mayanknader.com: https://mayanknader.com/