Dharmveer Jakhar

Dharmveer Jakhar

Software Development Engineer at Meesho

I build high-throughput, low-latency systems. IIT BHU '22.

About

I'm a Software Engineer II at Meesho, where I build and own high-throughput, low-latency backend systems powering ads and product recommendations at scale.

I graduated from IIT (BHU) Varanasi in 2022. Outside of work, I enjoy competitive programming & problem solving. I'm rated 1879 on LeetCode and hold Expert status on Codeforces.

Experience

Dec 2024 — Present

Software Development Engineer 2 · Meesho

Bengaluru, India

  • Led re-architecture and migration of multiple feed generators from Java to Go, delivering 65% cost savings ($30K/month) and 50% latency reduction via batching and gRPC optimisations.
  • Owner of Ads Product Recommendation and Recently Viewed feed services — 12,000 QPS and 1,000 QPS respectively, with p99 latencies of 110ms.
  • Implemented HTTP and gRPC framework support with middleware and telemetry in Meesho's central go-core library.
  • Implemented circuit breaker patterns using Resilience4j on revenue-critical ads serving flows with fallback mechanisms.
GogRPCJavaResilience4jKafkaScyllaDB
Jul 2022 — Nov 2024

Software Development Engineer 1 · Meesho

Bengaluru, India

  • Created a novel microservice to automate daily manual tasks for key account managers, resulting in weekly cost savings of 20 lacs INR.
  • Enabled a new ad real estate (Recently Viewed Substitutes) contributing to revenue uplift of 5% (10 lacs INR/day).
  • Developed features to boost new catalog visibility on ads, resulting in an 8% increase in catalog additions.
  • Handled primary on-calls and production outages across production systems and database clusters.
JavaSpring BootRedisMySQLHBaseKafka
Jun 2021 — Jul 2021

Software Engineering Intern · Miskaa

Remote

  • Developed and maintained the Flask backend for a Kitchen Companion App, including REST APIs and monitoring dashboard.
  • Built a meeting recording service via self-hosted Jitsi with AWS S3 storage, and automated CSV report generation with cron jobs.
PythonFlaskAWS S3JitsiREST APIs

Education

2018 — 2022

B.Tech in Civil Engineering · IIT (BHU) Varanasi

CGPA: 8.14 / 10.0

Achievements

Competitive Programming

Awards

Won the Meesho Panchayat Quarterly Award 3 times as part of the Star POD of the Quarter.