Harshit Prasad
Tech Lead - Search & Discovery at Blinkit
Delhi, India
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Top SchoolHarshit Prasad is a tech lead with 9 years of experience building cloud-native search and discovery systems at Blinkit, where he drives performance, reliability, and business impact for quick-commerce. He has a strong backend focus—authoring Go services, real-time indexing pipelines, and data-driven search features—alongside hands-on experience with Python, Rust, Kubernetes, and AWS. His work reduced search latency by 50%, improved vernacular search conversion by 15% and helped optimize Opensearch costs while maintaining >99.99% reliability goals. An active open-source contributor, he has frontend and full-stack roots from projects like FOSSASIA’s Susper decentralized search and a CERN GSoC LSTM implementation, reflecting both product and research sensibilities. Known for clear communication and team coaching, he pairs technical depth with a pragmatic, results-oriented leadership style. Outside work he balances systems design with hobbies like badminton, travel and anime, and maintains an active developer presence across GitHub, GitLab and a personal blog.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - B.Tech Electronics & Communication Engineering at The LNM Institute of Information TechnologyHigh School, High School at Sir Padampat Singhania School
English, Hindi, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
responsive-design10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
javascript8
heroku6
elasticsearch6
kubernetes6
amazon-ec26
elk6
amazon-web-services6
python6
angular6
kibana6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/susper.com
Feb 2017 - Dec 2017
Susper Decentralised Search Engine https://susper.com
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:98 commits, 156 PRs, 863 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Harshit primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Susper.com project. Their work included modifications to the base CSS, updating the navbar component by integrating icons, and fixing HTML lint errors. The user also implemented design changes, made improvements in the video section and pagination for the results, and fixed the image display. Additionally, the user was involved in responsive design and UI improvements.
search-enginedecentralised
harshit98/Anonymous-Discussion-Forum
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Anonymous Discussion Forum [MERN - Stack]
Contributions:23 commits, 24 PRs, 22 pushes in 20 days
reactexpressjsforumexpressdiscussion-forum
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