Apoorv Vardhan
Senior Software Engineer at 99designs
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolApoorv Vardhan is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building back-end systems and full-stack features for product-focused teams in Bengaluru. He has progressed from internships to engineering and lead roles at companies including Dgraph Labs, 99designs, and PlayHQ Sports, demonstrating growth into technical leadership. At Dgraph he contributed to the high-performance open-source graph database by improving GraphQL schema introspection, auth header handling, and mutation logic—work that touches real-time graph use cases. He combines practical backend expertise with schema and authentication craftsmanship, often fixing subtle edge cases like whitespace handling in secret headers. Comfortable shipping across the stack, he balances rapid iteration at scale with attention to correctness and developer experience. Trained in Computer Science at VIT, he brings both steady delivery and a knack for quietly improving robustness in distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Computer Science at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Hindi, Spanish
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Github Skills (19)
databases10
schema-design10
wpgraphql10
schema-org10
go10
wordpress-graphql10
graphql10
distribute10
schema10
database10
apidoc9
authorizations9
authorization9
api9
testing8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
dgraph-io/dgraph
Feb 2020 - Sep 2020
high-performance graph database for real-time use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 53 commits, 106 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Apoorv primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Dgraph database, focusing on GraphQL features and schema management. Their work involved implementing and refining authentication headers, correcting and enhancing delete mutation messages and logic. The user also addressed the handling of whitespace in secret header values and expanded control over custom logic header names. Several commits focused on enhancing the schema introspection capabilities.
graph-databasedatabasedistributedgoknowledge-graph
sixteen05/x-playlist-builder
Nov 2022 - Oct 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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