Megha Muskan Awasthi

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VP of Engineering, Glade Robotics - Lucene · learning to rank · Java

Glade Robotics
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
15+ years experience
Manipal Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu
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Overview

Currently at Glade Robotics, where I lead search and ranking with a team of 12. Built the experimentation framework 27 product teams use to ship changes safely. Shipped 20 launches on the search team without a rollback. Before that: Freshworks and BrowserStack. I teach a weekend class on A/B testing.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Advice on search and ranking
  • Second opinions on Scala decisions
  • Working sessions on Elasticsearch
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • SEO and link-building offers
  • Crypto token projects
  • Offshore staffing offers

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
LuceneElasticsearchScalalearning to rankWebSocketsA/B testingJava
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Office hours for career switchers into engineering: search and ranking and WebSockets

Topics
search and ranking, Scala, Lucene
Format
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Terms
Open to discuss
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
Best for
Engineers moving into leadership

23 years of search and ranking. Small equity or paid hours - flexible.

Hyderabad, Indiajavalearning to ranka/b testing

Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Jan 2026 - Present
    Glade Robotics · 9 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Brought on-call pages for search down from 25 a week to 4.
    • Moved 70% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Oct 2022 - Oct 2025
    Freshworks · 3 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Led the migration of 47 services to learning to rank.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Jul 2022
    BrowserStack · 3 yr 9 mo · Contract · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 9 launches on the search team without a rollback.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 6.
  4. Director of Engineering
    Jul 2015 - Oct 2018
    Capgemini · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Grew the search team from 4 to 18 engineers.
  5. Staff Software Engineer
    Nov 2011 - Jul 2015
    PhonePe · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 30 minutes to under 5.
    • Reduced cloud spend on search by 33% in two quarters.

Projects

Open-source WebSockets toolkit
2025

A small library for search and ranking that 197 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Manipal Institute of Technology
    B.Tech, Mathematics
    1998 - 2002

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