# DIVYANSH D.

> Ex Founding Engineer @ AlgoUniversity (YC S21) | Full-Stack (React, Next.js, Django) | AWS Certified | Kubernetes | AI-Driven Systems | Builds Fast, Ships Clean

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/divyanshd

I was the very first engineering hire at AlgoUniversity (YC S21) and built the company’s core systems from the ground up before it even got into YC. I helped scale the platform to over 100K users and more than a million submissions while keeping everything smooth and reliable. I like turning messy ideas into real products fast, writing clean code, and keeping users at the center of every decision. I’ve led junior engineers, handled multiple priorities at once, and delivered features and fixes side by side without slowing down. I’ve also built and deployed some crazy projects for real-world use and made open-source contributions along the way. I enjoy working in startup environments where ownership, creativity, and impact matter the most.

## Work Experience
### Software Developer, Quantum - R&D @ BQP
Jan 2025 – Present | Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States

### Software Engineer @ Roe
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Delivered missing backend APIs and an E2E testing framework for testing, staging, and prod clusters using Next.js, Django; fixed critical infra bugs for agent runs.

### Founding Software Engineer @ AlgoUniversity (YC S21)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
•Built an online judge using React.js, Node.js, and TypeScript, with a secure sandboxed environment to prevent execution risks, processing 1M+ submissions and hosting contests for 100K+ users to date, flawlessly under real-time competitive loads.
•Developed a cost-efficient offline processing system using AWS Managed Kafka to handle traffic spikes, a classic case of guerrilla capacity planning, saving $24,192/month. Debugged production issues, improving system reliability during peak load.
•Implemented on-prem system architecture with Nginx and Gunicorn for horizontal scaling, load balancing, and optimized TCP/IP handling, ensuring stable performance during competitive programming contests with 100K+ active users.
•Designed and managed both on-prem and cloud Kubernetes clusters for Code Genie (AI teaching assistant), orchestrating Dockerized workloads across AWS ECS, with integrated RAG search; ensured high performance for 20,000+ weekly learners.
•Enhanced system performance and scalability by implementing Redis for caching, S3 for code submissions, and PostgreSQL for data management, enabling real-time leaderboards and efficient analysis by the Code Genie Al.
•Secured systems using AWS CloudWatch, mitigating DDoS attacks by blocking malicious accounts, achieving >90% uptime, contributing to securing $1M in funding through our pitch to Y Combinator and other investors.
•Extensively administered Linux-based production systems, including kernel-level debugging, process monitoring, and automation via shell scripting for distributed services across on-prem and cloud environments.
•Collaborated on infrastructure migration projects involving virtualized environments (VMware/EC2) and containerized workloads, adapting legacy services into Kubernetes-ready deployments.
•Tech Stack: TypeScript, React.js, Node.js, AWS ECS, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS Lambda, Amazon API Gateway, AWS Managed Kafka, Gunicorn, Nginx, Redis, PostgreSQL, AWS S3, AWS CloudWatch

### Research Intern @ IIIT Hyderabad
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Hyderabad Area, India
- Contributed to India's first Living Lab, enhancing IoT-based air pollution monitoring systems with a 20% accuracy boost and 80% cost reduction.  
- Deployed IoT air pollution monitors in government schools, enabling pollution level detection and mitigation.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Riverside

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering
International Institute of Information Technology, Bhubaneswar


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/divyanshdeshmukh

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Last updated: 2026-04-10