91%
Faster candidate screening
An autonomous scoring engine evaluates every open hiring ticket in a single pass.
I am a Software Engineer at Grid Dynamics, currently engaged with Visa — a leading global card network — building Java backend services for merchant management. I care about correct data, clear API contracts, and changes that hold up in production. Before this engagement I spent a year shipping AI hiring systems on FastAPI, LLMs and GCP — that work is still where my proudest numbers live.
91%
An autonomous scoring engine evaluates every open hiring ticket in a single pass.
90%
Screening workflows that used to be human-driven now run end to end without intervention.
35+
Asynchronous FastAPI services backing structured and semantic data workloads.
80%
Untrusted user code isolated inside Firecracker microVMs rather than shared runtimes.

Bengaluru, India
Hardik Kumar Singh
Every architectural choice should be defensible in terms of latency, cost, or hours of human work removed.
Blocking a request thread on an LLM call is a design decision. Usually the wrong one.
User code, model output, and third-party responses all get a boundary before they touch the system.
I am Hardik, a Software Engineer at Grid Dynamics in Bengaluru, currently engaged with Visa — a leading global card network — building Java backend services for merchant management. I graduated from MNNIT Allahabad with a B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, and I have spent every role since asking the same question: what has to stay true when traffic, data, or team size grows?
On the Visa engagement my work is production Java — merchant workflows, synchronisation with downstream processing, and API contracts that integrators can actually debug. Before that I was on Grid Dynamics' own enterprise AI platforms: asynchronous FastAPI, Vertex AI and GPT-4, PostgreSQL on Cloud Run, and the kind of throughput numbers that only matter if recruiters feel them.
I am not tied to one stack. I go where the problem is — Java and Spring where the enterprise boundary is, Python and FastAPI where models and async I/O dominate. What I optimise for is impact you can measure, whether that is fresher merchant reporting or ninety-one percent less screening time.
2021
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, finishing with a CPI of 8.27.
2024
Real-time object detection on a Jetson Nano taught me that latency budgets are a hardware conversation.
Jan 2025
Led the backend of an LLM-powered learning assistant and shipped 35+ REST APIs into production.
Aug 2025
Owned backend systems for an AI talent acquisition platform used to automate real hiring workflows.
Sep 2026
Still at Grid Dynamics — now building Java backend enhancements across merchant management for Visa, a leading global card network.
Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
B.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering
CPI 8.27
Dec 2021 — May 2025
G.N. National Public School
CBSE, Class XII
95.4%
Apr 2021
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Amazon Web Services
Depth in a handful of things and working literacy in the rest. This is what I reach for, not everything I have installed.
Chosen for the problem, not the résumé.
Asynchronous services that hold their latency budget.
Schemas designed for the queries they will actually see.
Containerised, cost-aware, and operable by a small team.
Models treated as a dependency with a latency and cost budget.
The unglamorous half of shipping.
Still at Grid Dynamics — currently engaged with Visa on Java merchant platforms. The AI platform numbers below came from the engagement before this one, and every bullet is tied to something that shipped.
Grid DynamicsBengaluru, India
Engaged by Grid Dynamics with Visa — a leading global card network — engineering Java backend enhancements across merchant management workflows, production defect resolution, and business-driven platform improvements.
Grid DynamicsBengaluru, India
Owned backend systems for an AI-powered talent acquisition platform: the APIs, the data model, the model integration, and the deployment path that carried them to production.
Grid DynamicsHyderabad, India
Led the backend of an LLM-powered learning assistant that turns arbitrary source material — PDFs, repositories, documentation, code — into interactive learning experiences.
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Screening that finishes before the recruiter opens the tab.
An enterprise platform that automates candidate screening end to end. Every incoming CV is parsed, embedded, semantically matched against open job descriptions, scored, and ranked — without a recruiter having to open a single profile first.
Any source material, turned into something you can practise against.
A learning platform that ingests PDFs, GitHub repositories, documentation and raw code, then generates interactive material from them: Q&A, guided explanation, and coding exercises that are evaluated automatically by executing the learner's submission.
Real-time detection on hardware that fits in your hand.
A computer vision system for real-time object detection and intelligent surveillance, running CenterNet ResNet-101 on a Jetson Nano across multiple live RTSP streams, with a chatbot layer that answers questions about what the cameras actually saw.
A short walkthrough of the assistant turning raw source material into something you can actually practise against — the same build referenced in the projects above.
Labels are cheap. Each card opens onto the specific practices behind it.
FastAPI services built non-blocking from the start, so an API that depends on multi-second inference still answers in milliseconds and reports progress rather than holding a connection open.
Advanced filtering and pagination designed against the access patterns the client actually has, which is what turned into a 35% improvement in recruiter workflow efficiency.
35+ endpoints presenting relational, vector and cache storage as one coherent surface, so callers never need to know which store answered them.
The systems I am proudest of are proprietary. These are the repositories anyone can read.
Almost everything I have built professionally lives behind a company login, so this is the smaller half of the picture: the computer vision system from my final year, a conference site, and the web projects I learned on before I moved to backend work.
I am at Grid Dynamics, currently engaged with Visa on merchant platforms, and still enjoy talking backend design, Java services, and the AI systems work I did before. If you want to compare notes or explore something together, reach out.