Jyotiska Khasnabish

About

Hi! I am Jyotiska. I currently work as a Senior Engineering Manager at HackerRank and live in Bangalore. At HackerRank, I lead the engineering efforts for Infra, Content, and IDE teams to create a world that values skills over pedigree.

Throughout my career, I've built and led engineering teams across various domains, from AgriTech to HealthTech, focusing on scalable solutions that make a real impact. I'm passionate about AI, distributed systems, and creating products that solve meaningful problems.

I completed my Masters from IIIT Bangalore with Databases and Information Systems & Machine Learning specialization.

Whenever I find time, I work on side projects and contribute to open source. My personal projects are on my GitHub profile.

Experience

2022 - Present

Senior Engineering Manager

HackerRank

Leading engineering efforts for Infra, Content, and IDE teams to create a world that values skills over pedigree. Responsible for technical strategy, team growth, and delivering scalable solutions for HackerRank's assessment platform.

2021 - 2022

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

Uvi Health (Acquired)

Headed engineering and product at Uvi Health. Created India's #1 PCOS care app that scaled to 50,000+ downloads and over 30,000+ registered users within the first year of launch. The platform and the app was acquired by the Mother & Child Care vertical of a large multinational corporation.

2017 - 2021

Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer

KrishiHub

Co-founded and operated KrishiHub for 5 years, building a large scale nation-wide Agri supply chain system. Led all technology and product development efforts, and scaled the platform to support thousands of farmers across multiple states in India.

2016 - 2017

Lead Data Engineer

GSN Games

Led Data Engineering efforts at GSN Games at the Bangalore studio. Built data pipelines and analytics infrastructure to process gaming data at scale to support decision making and product improvements.

2013 - 2016

Senior Software Engineer

DataWeave

Started my career with DataWeave as part of their early team and spent time building data products. Worked on data extraction, processing, and analysis systems for competitive intelligence.

Projects

Daily Meditations

A Chrome extension delivering timeless wisdom from J. Krishnamurti to inspire mindfulness and reflection every day.

JavaScript Chrome Extension Mindfulness

Which Pokémon is it?

A trivia game that lets you guess the name of the Pokémon from the silhouette on screen. Received close to 30,000 game sessions within few days on launch. Got featured on Product Hunt.

JavaScript PokéAPI CSS

LiteNote

A lightweight personal notepad on your browser.

JavaScript LocalStorage PWA

prettytable

CLI module for printing pretty tables on console from multiple data sources.

Python CLI Data Formats

stackzed (Inactive)

stackzed lets you create beautiful and unique stack pages for you or your organization that you can share with the rest of the world.

Python Django PostgreSQL

minpubsub

A minimal PubSub based distributed message queue model with multiple backend persistence modes - InMemory, SQLite, MySQL, MongoDB.

Python Distributed Systems Message Queues

go-webcolors

Port of webcolors library from Python to Go.

Go Color Libraries Web Development

Talks

Introduction to DataFrames in Spark

2015 Bangalore, India

Presented at Apache Spark Meetup, covering the basics of DataFrames API in Spark and how it simplifies data processing compared to traditional RDDs.

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Image Processing at Scale with Go

2015 GopherCon India

Discussed techniques for distributing image processing workloads using Go's concurrency features, along with practical implementation examples.

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Python + Spark: Lightning Fast Cluster Computing

2014 PyCon India

An overview of Apache Spark's Python API (PySpark) and how Python developers can leverage Spark for distributed data processing.

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Implementing a Publish-Subscribe Distributed Notification System on Hadoop

2013 CSI Convention, Vizag

Presented the architecture and implementation of a distributed notification system built on Hadoop, highlighting the publish-subscribe pattern.

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