Hardik Paranjape

S

Engineering Manager at Adobe · Redis, rate limiting

Adobe
Mumbai, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
College of Engineering, Pune
English, Hindi, Marathi
Advising
Messaging unavailable

Overview

Currently at Adobe, where I lead API platforms with a team of 26. Reduced cloud spend on public API by 30% in two quarters. Brought on-call pages for public API down from 30 a week to 4. Most at home with OpenAPI and TypeScript.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on API platforms
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Crypto token projects
Skills
DjangoOpenAPITypeScriptRedisPostgreSQLrate limiting
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for early-stage teams: API platforms and TypeScript

Topics
API platforms, OpenAPI, TypeScript
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Free for early founders
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Teams scaling past 50 people

7 years of API platforms. One call a month or async reviews.

Mumbai, Indiaredisdjangotypescript
Open

Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    Jun 2025 - Present
    Adobe · 1 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 19 product teams use to ship changes safely.
    • Cut p99 latency on the public API services from 710ms to 107ms.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Jan 2024 - Jun 2025
    Google · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 2.
    • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 14 million requests a day.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Mar 2020 - Jan 2024
    Meesho · 3 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Mumbai, India
    • Wrote the Redis service that now handles 85 million requests a day.

Projects

Side project: a reading list app
2026

Built with OpenAPI and rate limiting. 3151 people used it last year.

References

No references yet.

Education

  1. College of Engineering, Pune
    B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    2015 - 2019

Details

Compensation expectations
What they are targeting for their next role.
Visible to connections
Direct contact details
Direct email and a scheduling link.
Visible to connections

Trusted Partners

Sponsored