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⚡ S45 · Software Engineer · India

ENGINEER / BUILDER / OPEN SOURCE

PrathamRanka

Backend engineer building production systems that survive real traffic, real failures, and real deadlines.

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CurrentlyS45
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Experience

Work measured in outcomes.

Roles where ownership meant making hard systems understandable, dependable, and ready for real users.

May 2026 - Present

S45

Software Engineer

Contributing to production backend systems by implementing features from HLD/LLD specifications, building a standardized multi-layer testing framework, developing shared testing infrastructure, writing comprehensive unit and integration tests, strengthening repository contract tests, validating database migrations, and improving CI quality gates. Collaborating on code reviews, bug fixes, and production engineering practices to improve maintainability, reliability, and long-term scalability.

Mar 2026 - May 2026

Paasa

Y YC S24

Software Engineer Intern

Engineered fintech infrastructure powering banking and payment workflows across KYC, payouts, collections, and financial reconciliation. Built and optimized backend APIs, integrated banking partners, improved transaction reliability, automated internal operations, and contributed to production systems handling over $19M+ in assets while working closely with product and engineering teams.

Jun 2025 - Aug 2025

TalKeys

Full-Stack Engineering Intern

Developed production-ready features across the React and Node.js stack, implemented REST APIs, integrated third-party services, improved application performance, resolved production issues, and collaborated in an agile environment to ship customer-facing functionality with a focus on reliability and maintainability.

02

Selected work

A small list with real depth.

Selected systems spanning infrastructure, privacy, developer tools, and production software.

01

LeaseForge

Cloud-native runtime for AI agents that securely executes tool calls inside Kubernetes sandboxes using distributed lease management, optimistic concurrency control, FIFO scheduling, automatic recovery, and production-grade container orchestration.

Code
02

StarSwap

Developer platform for discovering GitHub repositories with intelligent recommendations, GitHub OAuth, Redis-powered caching and rate limiting, PostgreSQL, real-time leaderboards, and a scalable full-stack architecture.

Code
03

ZKavach

Privacy-preserving payment infrastructure implementing Coinbase x402 with Groth16 zk-SNARKs, Poseidon hashing, Solidity smart contracts, and programmable USDC payments for autonomous AI agents.

Code
04

SpotifyDownloader

Production-ready TypeScript CLI featuring concurrent download workers, resumable pipelines, intelligent source matching, FFmpeg processing, ID3 metadata embedding, automated testing, CI/CD, and cross-platform support.

Code
03

Capabilities

Tools change.
Engineering judgment compounds.

My work centers on backend engineering, distributed workflows, open source, and turning ambiguous requirements into maintainable production systems.

01

Languages

TypeScript
Go
Python
C++
02

Backend

Node.js
FastAPI
WebSockets
Next.js
03

Data & systems

PostgreSQL
Redis
Kafka
MongoDB
04

Infrastructure

Docker
Kubernetes
GitHub Actions
React
04

Open source & GitHub

M

Medusa / Contributor

Contributing to the infrastructure behind modern commerce.

Thoughtful code contributions to Medusa's open-source commerce platform, with the same emphasis on clarity and maintainability I bring to product work.

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Have a difficult system to build?

Let's make it
dependable.

prathamworks06@gmail.com +91 70232 06003

Open to thoughtful conversations about ambitious products, infrastructure, and engineering teams that care about the details.