Shalini Achar

Software Engineer · Search and ranking · Scala

Qualcomm

Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)

1+ years experience

IIT Kanpur

English, Hindi, Kannada

Learning Open to work

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Overview

1 years in software engineering, the last 1 at Qualcomm, where I work on the search team. Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion. Moved 92% of search traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with Scala and Lucene. Volunteer coding coach for school students.

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Roles in search and ranking
Mentors who have done this before
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ScalaLuceneA/B testinglearning to rankJavaPythonElasticsearch

LearningLearning something

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Learning Scala - want a mentor for monthly reviews

Goal: Build a portfolio project in search and ranking that I'd be proud to show.
Where I am now: Some experience
Ideal mentor: Someone who has worked in search and ranking for a few years
Cadence: Weekly
What I can offer back: Testing and feedback on your projects

1 years in so far. Looking for honest feedback, once or twice a month.

Bengaluru, Indialearning to rankpythonscala

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Open to workLooking for a role

closes in 3 months

Open to Software Engineer roles at Series B logistics companies

Target roles: Software Engineer
Level: Mid
Industries: Healthtech, AI infrastructure
Work mode: Remote
Available: From next quarter
Work authorization: Indian citizen, open to relocating
What I'm looking for: Early-stage company (seed) where search and ranking is core to the product.
Not interested in: Pure people management

1 years in search and ranking. Strongest at learning to rank and Lucene. Serving notice now.

Bengaluru, Indiaa/b testinglucenescala

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Experience

Software Engineer
Oct 2025 - Present
Qualcomm · 1 yr · Contract · Bengaluru, India
- Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 25 minutes to under 5.
- Brought on-call pages for search down from 12 a week to 4.
- Wrote the Elasticsearch service that now handles 17 million requests a day.

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Education

IIT Kanpur
B.Tech, Computer Engineering
2020 - 2024

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