Summary
Paras Lehana is a Senior Lead Engineer with 9 years' experience building ultra-low-latency search and auto-suggest systems at IndiaMART, specializing in Apache Solr, query relevancy, and contextual suggestion features. He led performance work that cut response times dramatically (client-side display among the fastest versus Google/Amazon/Flipkart) while scaling the suggestion corpus to tens of millions and maintaining a strict 100ms SLA. Comfortable across backend engineering, tokenization strategies (Edge NGrams) and caching layers (Varnish), he has a track record of migrating systems at scale (Redis → Solr) and shipping pragmatic ML-driven query understanding. Based in Noida, he combines rigorous technical depth from a B.Tech in CSE with competitive instincts as a national badminton and chess player, bringing strategic thinking to engineering trade-offs. Outside work he pursues photography, PC gaming and travel, and his pithy Github tagline, "void explore(life);", hints at a curiosity that drives both experimentation and continual product improvement.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and Engineering at Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida
Intermediate (Non-Medical), High School/Secondary Certificate Programs, Intermediate (Non-Medical), High School/Secondary Certificate Programs at Kendriya Vidyalaya No. 2 Jammu
French, Sanskrit