Prashant Rao
Founding Engineer & Software Engineer
Building scalable SaaS, Fintech and AI products. · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Highlights
- IIT Indore Graduate (2024)
- Founding Engineer at Perusal
- Built ATS platform from scratch
- Reduced onboarding pipeline from 90s → 10s
- Built wealth-management flows at BlinkMoney
- 5★ CodeChef (Rating 2055)
- Codeforces Specialist
About
Building things that scale
Civil engineering degree, software engineering career — it wasn't really a plan. I started competitive programming at IIT Indore, hit 5-star on CodeChef and Specialist on Codeforces, and by the time I graduated I'd spent more hours in a code editor than AutoCAD.
The past two years have been fintech and HR-tech. At Perusal I joined as one of the first engineers and built most of the product from scratch — candidate search on Elasticsearch, an end-to-end interview scheduling system, recruiter tooling, and a Lambda-based onboarding pipeline I eventually got down from 90s to 10s. At BlinkMoney I owned the wealth product end to end, wiring up lump-sum, SIP, and daily SIP flows through Fintech Primitives APIs and fixing a KYC pipeline that was quietly creating duplicate transactions on every retry.
I enjoy joining early-stage teams where I can own products end-to-end, work directly with founders, and solve difficult engineering problems. My strongest areas are backend systems, search infrastructure, workflow automation, and AI-powered applications.
Experience
Work history
Software Development Engineer I
BlinkMoney
Nov 2025 – Apr 2026
Remote · Mumbai
- Reworked the KYC sign-up flow by reusing links and tuning database queries, cutting API calls by ~70% and reducing duplicate transactions.
- Improved the lien-marking service increasing loan-creation success by ~20%.
- Built and shipped wealth-management features end to end — lump-sum, SIP, and daily SIP — by connecting Fintech Primitive APIs with NestJS and PostgreSQL.
Founding Engineer
Perusal
May 2024 – Oct 2025
Indore, India
- Optimized the AWS Lambda + EventBridge client-onboarding pipeline, cutting run time from 90s to 10s (~88% faster).
- Designed and built REST APIs and backend services using NestJS, MySQL, JWT authentication, and role-based access control, including an automated interview scheduling system.
- Designed candidate search and filtering using Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, enabling full-text search, ranking, and faster resume discovery.
- Automated job-description creation using AI, reducing manual writing effort by ~90%.
- Led the frontend (React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS) and shipped a reusable UI component library on NPM.
- Added unit and integration tests (Jest, React Testing Library) across components and core flows to harden reliability.
LLM Trainer
AccunAI
Feb 2024 – Apr 2024
Jaipur, India
- Contributed to fine-tuning a globally leading LLM by applying domain expertise in Reinforcement Learning via Human Feedback (RLHF).
- Enhanced model accuracy and real-world applicability, driving improvements in AI performance and user interaction quality.
Full-Stack Developer
VisioCreate
Sep 2023 – Jan 2024
India
- Built and shipped UI/UX-driven full-stack web applications for clients at a design and development studio.
Projects
Personal builds
LumenAI
May 2026 – PresentA privacy-first AI assistant that runs language models locally using Ollama on a Next.js, NestJS, and TypeScript stack.
- Implemented semantic memory using PostgreSQL and pgvector for vector similarity search and retrieval of relevant historical conversations.
- Built a retrieval and prompt orchestration pipeline that injects relevant memories into LLM context windows for personalized responses.
CV2Link
2025AI-powered resume-to-portfolio generator. Upload a resume and get a shareable, styled portfolio page in seconds.
- Parses resume content using LLMs and maps it to a structured portfolio schema.
- Generates a unique shareable URL per upload with a live-rendered portfolio page.
Skills
Technical toolkit
Backend
Frontend
Cloud
Education
Academic background
Indian Institute of Technology, Indore
Nov 2020 – May 2024Bachelor of Technology – Civil Engineering
Indore, India
Central Hindu Boys School
Jul 2018 – Mar 2020Senior Secondary (PCM)
India
Achievements
Competitive highlights
Engineering Taste
What I like building
- Search systems
- Backend architecture
- Payments and idempotency
- Workflow automation
- AI-powered products
- Scalable APIs
Contact
Let's connect
Open to new roles, collaborations, or just a good technical conversation. Feel free to reach out through any of the channels below.