Pratyush Singh is a Lead Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems and shipping product-focused features at high-growth startups like Zepto. A CSE graduate from IIIT Vadodara and former co-founder of Hapramp, he blends hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial instincts, having led full-stack work and platform improvements across consumer-facing services. He is an active open-source contributor and long-time FOSSASIA mentor, with practical contributions to distributed search infrastructure such as the loklak_server project, where he improved backend reliability and configuration for large-scale message indexing. Known for moving between deep technical implementation and team leadership, he brings proven mentorship experience from multiple Google Summer of Code and Code-in cycles. Pragmatic and curious, he often surfaces small but impactful improvements—like configurable retry/backoff strategies—that increase system robustness in production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate Science, Intermediate Science at Sant Atulanand Convent School
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at Indian Institute of Information Technology Vadodara
Distributed Open Source twitter and social media message search server that anonymously collects, shares, dumps and indexes data http://api.loklak.org
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:86 commits, 122 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pratyush primarily contributed to the backend of the loklak_server, focusing on various improvements. They added functionality to resize an iframe in html, integrated a query addition in KaizenHarverster, and fixed multiple Codacy issues related to code style and best practices. Additionally, the user implemented configuration options for retries and backoff parameters for the backend push function. The user worked primarily in Java, with commits touching HTML and configuration files as well.
Contributions:24 commits, 5 PRs, 17 pushes in 10 months
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