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Himanshi Patel

Software EngineerPlayarkahimanship871@gmail.com

Before Playarka, I spent 1.5+ years learning through internships, projects and hackathons.

Lately, I’ve also been exploring the world of AI and LLMs, building with LLM APIs, LangChain, LangGraph and Ollama, and experimenting with prompting and AI-powered applications.

Pune, India · ––:–– IST · Open to interesting work

Experience

PlayarkaWorking

Jul 2026 – PresentSoftware EngineerPune · on-site
  • Full-stack development across artist booking, portfolio, e-commerce, UI component, client website, and desktop application projects using modern web technologies and Bunmaska.
  • Systems design
  • Architecture
  • Scalability
playarka.com

Hummingbird Web Solutions

Jan 2026 – Jul 2026Software Developer InternPune · on-site
  • Developed a headless e-commerce platform using Next.js, TypeScript, GraphQL, and Adobe Commerce (Magento), implementing responsive storefronts, checkout flows, and HitPay and Atome payment integrations.
  • Improved Core Web Vitals across multiple websites by optimizing LCP, CLS, and page load through image optimization, CDN integration, caching, API deferral, asset minification, and performance analysis using Lighthouse, PageSpeed Insights, GA4, and Google Search Console.
  • Improved backend reliability by implementing Zod validation for user-facing APIs, strengthening input validation and enhancing registration and subscription workflows.
  • Developed customer-facing features including PLP/PDP enhancements, filtering, pagination, checkout loading states, address management, subscriptions, payment status handling, CMS integration, and responsive UI improvements.
  • Refactored shared utilities and authentication configuration to reduce code duplication, improve maintainability, and support scalable multi-store functionality.
  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • GraphQL
  • Zod
  • Linux
hbwsl.com

BetaTest Solutions

Nov 2025 – Jan 2026Software Engineer InternRemote
  • Owned backend architecture for the budget module of a corporate finance app with Node.js, TypeScript, Drizzle ORM and PostgreSQL.
  • Built, documented and tested the APIs in Bruno for reliable cross-service communication.
  • Wrote unit and integration suites in Vitest to keep the module stable.
  • Node.js
  • Drizzle ORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • Vitest
  • Bruno
betatestsolutions.com

Sprint Analytics

Sep 2024 – Mar 2025Full Stack Developer InternPune · on-site
  • Designed and automated asynchronous billing on cron-based scheduling, plus targeted notification microservices.
  • Implemented search indexing, pagination and fast parsing for large, dynamic JSON payloads.
  • Helped build the on-screen reporting dashboards.
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
  • Cron
sprintanalytics.in

Projects

Learnify

Hackathon finalist build

A platform for students to publish, discover and collaborate

A full-stack platform where students, mentors, researchers and organizations can publish projects, share knowledge, discover opportunities and collaborate.

  • Project publishing, idea boards, blogs, hackathon discovery, mentor requests and collaborations.
  • Real-time direct messaging with follow/unfollow and unified platform search.
  • JWT authentication, Google Sign-In, role-based authorization, admin moderation, Cloudinary uploads and Redis caching.
  • AI-powered Discover feature that retrieves answers from platform data without generating unsupported information.
  • MongoDB
  • Express.js
  • React
  • Node.js
  • Redis
  • Cloudinary
  • JWT
  • Google OAuth
CodeLive

Indic Roots

SIH 2025 grand finalist

An immersive cultural-heritage platform with VR

360° panoramas, spatial VR scenes, curriculum integrations for schools, heritage-accurate gamification and an AI chatbot that knows the monuments.

  • Marketplace modules, museum ticketing and interactive monument archives.
  • Edge authentication with Clerk and a micro-interaction-rich front end.
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • GraphQL
  • Three.js
  • Clerk
  • Tailwind
CodeLive

Education

IES College of Technology, Bhopal

2022 – 2026B.Tech, Computer Science EngineeringCGPA 8.58
  • College Topper (2026 batch) — Graduated with the highest CGPA across the college.
  • Class Topper, 8 consecutive semesters — Ranked 1st in the class by SGPA in all eight semesters.
  • 3× College Topper — Secured the highest SGPA across the college in three semesters.

Gurudev Public School, Bina

2018 – 2022Senior secondary, PCM12th: 93.6% · 10th: 95.6%
  • School Topper — Topped the school in both 10th and 12th.

Achievements

Smart India Hackathon 2025

Grand Finalist

National finalist with a platform for preserving and showcasing Indian heritage.

Dec 2025 · Ongole, AP · Team Innovator's Squad

Smart India Hackathon 2023

Grand Finalist

Team captain and system architect. Ranked in the top 7 of 500 teams.

Dec 2023 · Jaipur · Team Code Connect

Flipkart GRID 7.0

Semi Finalist

Competitive problem solving on the advanced engineering track.

2025 · Engineering track

Savishkar Madhya Bharat 2025

3rd Place

National-level innovation and project-idea track.

May 2025 · Madhya Pradesh

Citronics 2024

Runner Up

Multi-day national technical hackathon.

Mar 2024 · Indore

LinkedIn

1.6M+ impressions

I share things I learn along the way, from backend development and system design to DevOps and building with LLMs.

Writing in public

Himanshi's team at the Smart India Hackathon 2025 grand finale
SIH 2025 · Ongole
Himanshi's team at the Smart India Hackathon 2023 grand finale
SIH 2023 · Jaipur

Skills

Languages
  • Python
  • Java
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • SQL
Web & Frontend
  • React.js
  • Next.js
  • Astro
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Zustand
  • Redux Toolkit
  • Three.js
Mobile
  • Expo
  • React Native
Backend & APIs
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • FastAPI
  • Spring Boot
  • REST APIs
  • GraphQL
  • Zod
Databases & ORM
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Prisma
  • Drizzle ORM
  • Pinecone
  • Qdrant
AI / LLM
  • LLM APIs
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • Ollama
  • Prompt Engineering
  • Claude Code
  • Cursor
  • Antigravity
Infrastructure & DevOps
  • Linux
  • Shell Scripting
  • Docker
  • Caching
  • GitHub Actions
Payments & E-commerce
  • Payment Gateways
  • Adobe Commerce
Tools & Platforms
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Bitbucket
  • Firebase
  • Bruno
  • Postman
  • Vitest
  • Visual Studio Code
  • IntelliJ IDEA
  • pgAdmin
Core Computer Science
  • Data Structures & Algorithms
  • Object-Oriented Programming
  • DBMS
  • Operating Systems
  • Computer Networks
System design
  • Load balancing (L4 / L7)
  • API gateways: routing, auth, rate limits
  • Monoliths vs. microservices
  • Indexing, sharding, partitioning
  • Transactions, ACID, CAP
  • Caching strategies and CDNs
  • Message brokers and async processing
  • WebSockets and real-time links
  • Nginx and reverse proxies
  • Stateful vs. stateless services
  • XSS, SQLi and CSRF mitigation
  • Normalisation and denormalisation

Activity

GitHub

550 contributions in the last year · 44 public repos · on GitHub since 2023

github.com/Himanshipatel04 ↗

Sparse, isn’t it? Turns out employers have this strange habit of using different platforms and a work email, and GitHub refuses to count anything it wasn’t invited to. The real commits are alive and well, just somewhere nobody built a heatmap for. Judge me by these squares and I’ll judge you by your Stack Overflow reputation.

Personal

Books

  • Atomic Habits
  • Sapiens
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

Off the clock

  • Nature walks
  • Journaling
  • Arts and crafts
  • Wandering new places

Great software isn't just code. It's understanding people, solving problems that matter, and staying curious enough to keep learning.