whommohit

About me

I'm Mohit — a software engineer who splits time between backend infrastructure and frontend craft. Over the last seven years I've shipped everything from Kubernetes operators to design systems, and I care most about the boring, load-bearing work that makes products trustworthy: good defaults, fast feedback loops, and documentation that doesn't lie.

Outside of work I mentor early-career engineers, contribute to a handful of open-source CLI tools, and am slowly working through a self-imposed reading list of systems-design classics. I grew up in Jaipur, studied Computer Science in Pune, and have lived in Bengaluru for the past five years.

Timeline

A merged view of education and experience. See the full timeline for projects and achievements too.

  1. 2023–Present

    Senior Software Engineer · Northwind Systems

    Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

    Leading the platform infrastructure team, building internal developer tooling and the deployment pipeline used by 40+ engineers.

  2. 2023–2023

    GitOps in Practice — Workshop · KubeCon India

    DevOps

  3. 2022–2022

    Volunteer Technology Lead · Disha Foundation (NGO)

    Remote / Jaipur

    Built and maintained a lightweight volunteer-scheduling app for a education-focused NGO serving 12 rural schools.

  4. 2022–2022

    Professional Cloud Architect · Google Cloud

    Cloud Infrastructure

    Certification covering GCP architecture design, security, and reliability.

  5. 2021–Present

    Core Contributor · Open Source — httpie-desktop

    Remote

    Regular contributor to httpie-desktop, focused on the request-history and collections features.

  6. 2021–2021

    Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) · Cloud Native Computing Foundation

    Container Orchestration

  7. 2021–2021

    6.824 Distributed Systems (self-paced) · MIT OpenCourseWare

    Distributed Systems

    Completed all labs including Raft consensus and a sharded key-value store.

  8. 2020–2023

    Software Engineer · Cedarworks

    Pune, India

    Built and maintained the core billing service for a B2B SaaS product, handling ~2M transactions/month.

  9. 2019–2020

    Freelance Backend Consultant · Independent

    Remote

    Short-term backend and infrastructure engagements for early-stage startups, mostly API design and initial AWS setup.

  10. 2015–2019

    B.Tech in Computer Science · College of Engineering Pune (COEP)

    Computer Science & Engineering

    Focused on distributed systems and computer networks; final year project on a peer-to-peer file sync tool.

Experience

5 roles across full-time, freelance, and open source.

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Education

5 entries — degree, certifications, and courses.

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Interests & hobbies