Priyaraj Sharma
SDE at Zepto
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolPriyaraj Sharma is an SDE with seven years of hands-on experience building backend systems and search-related features, currently working at Zepto after a Software Engineer role at Amazon. Comfortable across Python, C/C++ and C++, he has strong foundations in data structures and algorithms and a track record of shipping production-quality code and bug fixes. His open-source contributions to Manticore Search include implementing string functions and indexing improvements—work that directly improves a fast open-source alternative to Elasticsearch. A former GitHub Extern and MLH fellow, he has interned at Amazon and mentored students while creating DSA content and problem sets. Based in Delhi, he combines systems-level C++ expertise with practical web and backend development experience, and he’s actively building developer-facing projects like Mentoraction. Notably, his contributions show an ability to dive into complex engine internals and add well-tested features that affect core query behavior.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Maharaja Agrasen Institute Of TechnologyBGS International Public School - India
Github Skills (9)
text-manipulation10
databases10
search-engine10
c-language10
strings10
full-text-search10
cprogramming-language10
database10
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
manticoresoftware/manticoresearch
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Easy to use open source fast database for search | Good alternative to Elasticsearch now | Drop-in replacement for E in the ELK soon
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Priyaraj primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Manticore Search engine, specifically implementing and refining string manipulation functions. Their work involved adding features like the "upper" and "lower" functions, as well as improving existing string indexing capabilities. These changes included code modifications in `src/sphinxexpr.cpp`, demonstrating an understanding of the core search engine's expression evaluation and data handling processes. The user also added test cases and fixed bugs.
bm25databaseelasticsearchsearchdrop
Priyaraj17/Mentoraction
Jul 2021 - Apr 2022
Contributions:23 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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