Himanshu Naman Khanna

Overview

I work on search and ranking at Flipkart in New Delhi. Wrote the Python service that now handles 84 million requests a day. Before that: Bajaj Finserv and Zomato. Most at home with A/B testing and Elasticsearch.

Replies between meetings, usually same day

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Aug 2025 - Present
   Flipkart · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped 23 launches on the search team without a rollback.
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 23 minutes to under 5.
   • Grew the search team from 4 to 28 engineers.
2. Senior Software Engineer

   Dec 2022 - May 2025
   Bajaj Finserv · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Moved 64% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
3. Software Engineer

   Mar 2020 - Dec 2022
   Zomato · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 20 minutes to under 2.
4. Software Engineer

   Oct 2018 - Mar 2020
   Hindustan Unilever · 1 yr 5 mo · Contract · New Delhi, India
   • Shipped 16 launches on the search team without a rollback.
   • Wrote the Scala service that now handles 84 million requests a day.

Projects

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Education

1. ISB Hyderabad

   MBA, Business Administration
   2020 - 2022
2. IIT Guwahati

   B.Tech, Electronics and Communication
   2013 - 2017