Harshal Sanket Mhatre

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Software Engineer at Lakemont Group · Search and ranking

Lakemont Group
Ahmedabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
1+ years experience
IIT Kharagpur
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Overview

Currently at Lakemont Group, where I work on search and ranking. Led the migration of 52 services to Elasticsearch. Reduced cloud spend on search by 23% in two quarters. Most at home with A/B testing and learning to rank. I play football every Sunday.

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Slower in the last week of each quarter

Skills
LuceneScalaElasticsearchlearning to rankA/B testingPython

Experience

  1. Software Engineer
    Oct 2025 - Present
    Lakemont Group · 1 yr · Full-time · Ahmedabad, India
    • Moved 78% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the learning to rank service that now handles 31 million requests a day.
    • Shipped 6 launches on the search team without a rollback.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from search
2026

What went wrong and what worked while scaling search and ranking.

Side project: a commute planner
2025

Built with learning to rank and Elasticsearch. 4992 people used it last year.

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Education

  1. IIT Kharagpur
    B.Tech, Electrical Engineering
    2021 - 2025

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