harshit rathi
building things that don't scale
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skills
go
spring boot
django
fastapi
nodejs
nestjs
nextjs
flutter
genai
postgresql
mongodb
dynamodb
redis
kafka
rabbitmq
aws
docker
kubernetes
work
founding engineer @ ambitio
jul 2023 — present- first backend engineer — built and scaled the platform from 0 to 100k+ users.
- built the backend for the web & mobile apps and a suite of study-abroad tools — real-time chat (500k+ messages), an ai document editor and an internal crm.
- architected event-driven microservices on django, nestjs and aws sqs/sns.
- built async ai pipelines on celery & redis to process heavy llm workloads at scale.
backend intern @ zeda.io
jan 2023 — jun 2023- built sso, real-time mentions and platform-wide search on postgres full-text.
- designed a star-schema analytics backend and custom-domain emails via aws ses.