Priyanshu Tiwari

Senior Software Engineer

Gurugram, Haryana, India2 yrs 9 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led SkillUp to $900K+ ARR as founding engineer.
  • Designed async worker for scalable code execution.
  • Mentored interns and improved team capabilities.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Developer in the SaaS industry.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend DevelopmentApi DevelopmentAi DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentFrontend DevelopmentCloud ComputingContent CreationFull Stack DevelopmentWeb Development

Other Skills

AWSAmazon Web Services (AWS)BashBullMQC (Programming Language)C++Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)DjangoDockerDomain-driven designExpressFastAPIFigma (Software)GitHubGo (Programming Language)

About

I'm a backend heavy full-stack developer currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at HackerRank. My team recently built SkillUp from 0 to 1, about to cross $1 million in ARR, and is now focused on scaling it to the next level.

Experience

2 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Hackerrank

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos

  • Implemented an OAuth 2.0 credential module enabling fine-grained, scoped access to company-level APIs, with API-first documentation.
  • Revamped RAG pipelines for code quality evaluation using FastAPI and LangChain, achieving p95 < 1.5s , reducing TTFB from 2s to 500ms.
  • Mentored 3 SDE interns and conducted 40+ technical interviews to support team growth.
OAuth 2.0FastAPILangChainBackend DevelopmentAPI Development

SDE II

Jul 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Designed a fault-tolerant async worker using BullMQ and Redis to handle code executions, submissions, evaluations, rankings, and exports at scale.
  • Built SkillUpBot, a cross-platform AI assistant for VSCode, Xterm (CLI), and Jupyter Notebook, featuring autocomplete and inline chat, improving the developer experience for 10K+ active users.
BullMQRedisSkillUpBotBackend DevelopmentAI Development

SDE I

Jul 2023Jun 2024 · 11 mos

  • Founding engineer of SkillUp (NextJS+NestJS), scaling the B2B product to $900K+ ARR within a 5-person team.
  • Engineered core backend services for SkillUp, meeting strict SLOs of 99.9% availability with p95 ≤ 200ms and p99 ≤ 1s latency by implementing decoupled, domain-driven design principles.
NextJSNestJSDomain-driven designBackend DevelopmentProduct Development

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2022Jun 2023 · 11 mos

  • Refactored legacy BackboneJS UI into functional React components for 12 question types, integrating Excalidraw, Theia, VSCode and ttyd, improving page load speeds by 50%.
  • Upgraded OAuth strategy in Ruby on Rails for CCPA and GDPR compliance, strengthening
React.jsRuby on RailsOAuthFrontend DevelopmentBackend Development

Geeksforgeeks

Technical Content Writer

Sep 2021Jun 2022 · 9 mos

  • Published 70+ articles on React, Node, Docker, AWS, and Kubernetes with over 1.5M+ impressions.
DockerAWSCloud ComputingContent Creation

Rsquare web studio

Full Stack Web Developer

Jan 2021Dec 2021 · 11 mos

  • Revamped the company website using React, MongoDB, and Express, achieving a Lighthouse score of 86 and optimizing SEO to
  • secure the top result on Google and Bing.
  • Architected a headless CMS blog using Gatsby, Tailwind, and Strapi, optimizing build times and cutting maintenance costs by 50%.
  • Built data pipeline using FAISS to ingest historical stock data from 1000+ brokers.
React.jsMongoDBExpressFull Stack DevelopmentWeb Development

Education

Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana

Bachelor of Technology — Information Technology

Jan 2019Jan 2023

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