Backend and AI engineer on the Search team at Atlassian. I work on the service behind search in Jira and Confluence, which handles billions of requests, and I build AI agents and the workflows they run.
# Backend and platform work, mostly where the product meets other systems.
Software Engineer, Search
running Jul 2025 to now
Backend engineer on the search service that answers every search in Jira and Confluence.
Adopting Google Cloud alongside AWS for the search service, so it isn’t tied to a single cloud provider.
Software Engineer
Jul 2021 to Jun 2025, Pune
Rebuilt the uploader so large batches upload asynchronously and pick up where they left off after a failure.
Designed an in-house WhatsApp integration with rate limiting, error handling and cost controls built in.
Automated data ingestion from Mixpanel, Jira and Freshdesk into Snowflake using AWS Lambda and Workato, for product analytics.
Set up deeper monitoring in Datadog and Sumo Logic, then used it to find and fix key API bottlenecks.
Led the response to urgent production issues, automating data migrations and shipping preventive fixes.
Led the proof of concept and rollout for opening PowerPoint, Excel and Word files in the player through Microsoft’s WOPI discovery APIs.
Built content sync from Egnyte into the platform, migrating file tags and metadata and keeping both sides consistent.
Designed and built the front-end architecture of MindTickle’s internal file repository.
Problem Setter Intern
Nov 2020 to Feb 2021, remote
Wrote original contest problems and editorials in Python, C++ and JavaScript. Created the beginner JavaScript track, Fast Track JS, which is live on the platform.
Software Engineer Intern
May to Jun 2020, Indore
Detected the moment a storyline or event started trending and computed a trending score for it. Pulled data from news platform APIs into S3 with Lambda functions.
“He wore multiple hats to deliver projects with high ownership.”
“Adarsh excels at navigating complex code with ease, and his collaborative approach makes him an invaluable team member.”
Full recommendations are on LinkedIn.
# What I reach for, grouped the way I think about it.
# Built at IIT Patna, mostly for courses and the campus clubs I was part of.
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
sum += i;
printf("%d\n", sum);
return 0;
}public class Main {
public static void main(String[] a) {
int sum = 0;
for (int i = 1; i <= 10; i++)
sum += i;
System.out.printf("%d\n", sum);
}
}2020
Takes basic C programs and rewrites them as Java. An ANTLR4 context-free grammar builds the parse tree, and a post-order traversal emits the Java code node by node.
A ball-and-paddle brick breaker built on the HTML canvas in plain JavaScript. You can steer with the keyboard or the mouse.
2019
Lets faculty, staff and students at IIT Patna apply for leave online and keep a record of it. Approvers accept or reject each request, and admins manage employees, students and leave types.
Website and alumni database for the Students’ Association for Alumni Relations. I designed the schema and the interface, and worked on the back end.
Tutorials and level-wise practice problems for the competitive programming chapter at IIT Patna.
Events for NSS IIT Patna, plus a portal that tracks volunteers’ service hours with an admin view.
Designed and built the front end of the official TEDxIITPatna site.
A DBMS course project where faculty upload their publications and projects along with their collaborators. PHP and MySQL.
# Competitive programming, mostly from my years at IIT Patna.
| Contest | Rank | Out of |
|---|---|---|
| ICPC Asia Amritapuri onsite regional, 2019 | 81 | 313 teams |
| ICPC Asia online round, 2019 | 227 | 4,401 teams |
| CodeAgon 2020, CodeNation’s hiring challenge | 80 | about 50,000 |
| CodeChef August Challenge 2019, Division 1 | 139 | 1,178 |
| Codeforces Round #564, Division 2 | 323 | 8,008 |
| Google Kick Start 2019, Round A | 384 | 3,305 |
| Inter IIT Tech Meet 2019, algorithms for a terrace-farming robot that moves across hilly ground and detects obstacles | Bronze | medal |
Also on HackerRank and HackerEarth.
B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering, CPI 7.88
2017 to 2021
Senior Secondary (CBSE), 92%
2015 to 2017
On campus I coordinated the Training and Placement Cell, hosted Apeireon, the CSE department’s first coding fest, as overall fest coordinator, and was campus representative for CodeChef, Coding Blocks and Scaler Academy. I was also part of NJACK, SAAR, NSS, Anwesha and TEDxIITPatna.
Certificates: HackerRank Problem Solving (2020), JPMorgan Chase Software Engineering Virtual Experience (2020).