Anuj Khurana

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Software Engineer at BigBasket | ex-Tech Mahindra

BigBasket
Jaipur, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
3+ years experience
College of Engineering, Pune
English, Hindi
Open to work
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Overview

3 years in software engineering, the last 2 at BigBasket, where I work on the search team. Mentored 6 engineers through their first promotion. Wrote the Python service that now handles 54 million requests a day. Most at home with Lucene and Scala. Amateur photographer; mostly street and food.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Roles in search and ranking
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about search and ranking
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • SEO and link-building offers

Usually replies within a day

Skills
Scalalearning to rankJavaPythonLuceneElasticsearch
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Software Engineer in logistics, Jaipur or hybrid

Target roles
Software Engineer
Level
Mid
Industries
Climate tech, Fintech
Work mode
Remote
Available
From next quarter
Work authorization
Indian citizen
What I'm looking for
Early-stage company (Series A) where search and ranking is core to the product.
Not interested in
Contract-only roles

3 years in search and ranking. Strongest at Java and learning to rank. Open to the right conversation.

Jaipur, Indiaelasticsearchscalapython
Open

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Dec 2024 - Present
    BigBasket · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jaipur, India
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 29% in two quarters.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 44 minutes to under 3.
  2. Software Engineer
    Oct 2023 - Dec 2024
    Tech Mahindra · 1 yr 2 mo · Contract · Jaipur, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the search services from 446ms to 116ms.
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 18 a week to 1.

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Education

  1. College of Engineering, Pune
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    2019 - 2023

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