// who I am

Harshit Dixit — freelance full-stack developer in Lucknow

I'm Harshit — a frontend-leaning software engineer out of IIIT Lucknow, five-plus years into building consumer-facing web products on platforms serving more than ten million users. I've spent that time on both sides of the stack: React and Next.js up front, Node.js and infra underneath, with a habit of caring more than average about how fast a page actually feels.

Right now I consult independently on web architecture and frontend performance, co-run Airimation — a drone-swarm light-show startup — as Director, and contribute to a government-affiliated research initiative I keep off the public record for now.

Through harshitcreates I work with two kinds of clients. Local businesses in Lucknow come for websites, local SEO and custom software like booking and ordering systems. Startups and teams across India come for senior full-stack help, MVP builds and technical leadership. Either way, the person on the first call is the person who does the work.

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// 02 — experience
Nov 2024 – Jan 2026
Software Engineer II — Frontend (Full-stack)
Acko Insurance
Architected Safebuy, a distributed insurance engine issuing 50K+ policies a month with sub-200ms API responses (React, Next.js, Node.js, Redis, Docker on AWS). Led a savings-account rewards program end to end that added 80K+ newly engaged users, built challan tooling across 12+ state RTO APIs, designed Redis-backed re-engagement workflows, and extended Strapi CMS to cut an ops team's data turnaround from 2 days to under 10 minutes.
Jul 2021 – Sep 2024
Software Engineer I
Bigbasket (TATA Enterprise)
Optimised the checkout flow across 5M+ monthly transactions — LCP from 4.2s to 3.4s, time-to-interactive from 6s to 3.6s. Built the frontend of a real-time dynamic charges engine for 2M+ daily users, scaled the bb Elevate rewards interface to 1M+ subscribers at under 1.5s page loads, cut p95 latency from 380ms to 300ms at 10K requests a minute, and automated sitemap builds for 500K+ product URLs from 3 hours to 8 minutes.
// education
IIIT Lucknow
B.Tech, Information Technology — 2017 to 2021
// talks
Bennett University — GenAI in Practice: Industry Perspective
LNMIIT Jaipur — engineering fundamentals & industry readiness (invited speaker, in a personal capacity)
// stack
frontend
ReactNext.jsTypeScriptRedux/ZustandTailwind CSSCore Web VitalsSEO
backend
Node.jsExpressREST APIsPostgreSQLRedisStrapi CMS
infra
AWSDockerKubernetesAkamai CDNOpenTelemetryJenkinsCI/CD
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