Editing Hardik Sapra (section)

== Career ==

=== Instahyre ===

Sapra began a full-time software-engineering role at Instahyre in July 2022 and remained there until July 2024, according to his official résumé.<ref name="official-resume"/> Instahyre operates a technology-enabled recruitment platform, and Sapra has described his work there as spanning backend development, platform user experience, authentication, search, background processing, and performance improvements.

Sapra states that he led a two-person team during a redesign of the platform's user experience. His portfolio attributes a 25 percent increase in recruiter engagement to the redesign.<ref name="official-about"/><ref name="official-resume"/> He also reports implementing Security Assertion Markup Language single sign-on in Django, with the aim of simplifying the setup of enterprise accounts. According to his résumé, the change reduced onboarding work by approximately three hours for each account.<ref name="official-resume"/>

Another part of Sapra's work at Instahyre involved search and communications data. He reports building an Elasticsearch-based search facility for more than ten million communication logs, which he says improved the speed of resolving grievances by 20 percent.<ref name="official-resume"/> His résumé additionally credits database-query optimization, caching, pagination, and changes to front-end assets with reducing page-load time by 35 percent. He used Celery and Redis to support parallel background jobs and real-time events.<ref name="official-resume"/> These figures are drawn from Sapra's professional materials and have not been independently audited in the cited public sources.

In July 2023, Instahyre gave Sapra a “Top Performer Award” upon the completion of his first year at the company, according to the honors section of his LinkedIn profile.<ref name="linkedin"/> The recognition is the principal publicly listed professional award associated with his time at Instahyre.

=== Zopper ===

In August 2024, Sapra joined Zopper as a software development engineer. He worked there until June 2025, according to his résumé and portfolio.<ref name="official-about"/><ref name="official-resume"/> His responsibilities focused on insurance technology, including backend services supporting policy-purchase journeys. Sapra states that he designed Django microservices for transaction-sensitive processes and maintained a 200-millisecond p95 response time for those flows.<ref name="official-about"/>

Sapra's most frequently highlighted result from Zopper is an asserted 55 percent reduction in application-programming-interface latency. He says this was achieved by introducing Redis caching and moving blocking workloads to Celery task queues and Redis Pub/Sub.<ref name="official-home"/><ref name="official-resume"/> The work reflects an engineering approach based on separating long-running processes from synchronous requests, reducing repetitive data access, and allowing application services to exchange events asynchronously.

His résumé also describes the development of reusable AES-256 field encryption for sensitive customer information. Sapra says this work addressed findings from vulnerability assessment and penetration testing.<ref name="official-resume"/> In the context of insurance applications, such controls are used to limit exposure of personally identifiable and transaction-related data. The public résumé does not identify the affected clients or disclose protected implementation details.

=== Twisted Mountain Animation ===

Sapra joined Twisted Mountain Animation in November 2025. His official materials identify his title as senior software engineer, while the company's team page lists him as a senior software developer.<ref name="official-resume"/><ref name="tma-team"/> These descriptions refer to a senior engineering position and are retained as used by the respective sources.

At Twisted Mountain Animation, Sapra has worked on automating the creation of new software tenants. Before the automation, provisioning reportedly required manual coordination across databases, credentials, and several services. Sapra says he automated database setup, placed credential management in HashiCorp Vault, and used Redis-based activation so that new tenants could be enabled without restarting application services.<ref name="official-home"/> According to his portfolio, the resulting workflow reduced tenant-onboarding time from roughly one hour to less than two minutes.<ref name="official-about"/>

Sapra also reports architecting a centralized notification service that distributes events among more than five services using WebSockets and Redis.<ref name="official-resume"/> In addition, he built and maintained continuous-integration and continuous-deployment pipelines for more than seven services. The pipelines connect container builds, automated tests, Kubernetes rollouts, and failure reporting, allowing a complete environment to be deployed through a single action.<ref name="official-home"/>

For large data exports, Sapra says he designed an asynchronous reporting system able to process exports involving more than one million records. The design separates export generation from synchronous application-programming-interface requests and uses Amazon S3 lifecycle policies for stored files.<ref name="official-resume"/> This approach is intended to prevent large reports from tying up web requests and to control the retention of generated data.