Vaibhav Nachankar
Senior Software Engineer II at Compass
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVaibhav Nachankar is a Senior Software Engineer II with a decade of experience building full-stack web systems in Python/Django, TypeScript, and Node.js, currently shaping platform features at Compass in Seattle. He has a strong startup pedigree as an early engineer at Modus and Haptik, where he led system design and owned end-to-end implementations spanning backend services, React frontends, and data stores like Postgres and Elasticsearch. Vaibhav combines hands-on coding with technical leadership—having led full-stack teams, defined framework architecture, and built chat and messaging systems in production. A Carnegie Mellon alumnus, he brings distributed systems experience (RabbitMQ, Celery, AWS) and a pragmatic mindset for turning product requirements into scalable, maintainable services. Notably, he has repeatedly been the “first backend hire” who establishes core infrastructure and practices that enable rapid growth.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Science at University of MumbaiMaster's degree, Master's degree at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Marathi, Hindi
Github Skills (6)
drag7
countdown6
dropzone6
javascript5
timer4
react3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
overthinker29/react-dynamic-dropzone
Oct 2015 - May 2019
Dynamically creating an HTML dropzone on drag and paste
Contributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 7 months
dropzonejavascriptdrag
hellohaptik/haptik_website
Dec 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:36 PRs, 34 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
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