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Building theFuture,One Line at a Time

Mohana Krishna Padda

SVP Engineering at Sprive

15+Years Building
2Unicorns
10+Companies
25KFollowers
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National Hacking ChampionJavaSpring Boot $12.8B+ UnicornsNode.jsReact NexaDBDatabase for AI GenTypeScript $10M in 3 WeeksPythonFastAPIAWS
DockerKubernetes 5 Startups FoundedPostgreSQLMongoDB JsonToonCraftDeveloper ToolkitRedis Top 1% TopmateOpenAILangChainPineconeAI Agents
GraphQLMicroservices 15 Years ExperienceTerraformKafkaElasticSearch GrowJs CommunityReact NativeNext.jsServerlessCI/CD

Alpha Ninja

Builder. Coder. Dreamer. Doer.

I'm a passionate, unconventional tech leader who thrives on building bold ideas and leading from the front. I proudly embrace my inner geek and love being the odd one out, the one who dreams big and delivers even bigger.

Future Goals

I don't just think outside the box, I'm not even on the same planet. I want to die on Mars. I'm obsessed with space tech, brain-chip cloning, and anything that sounds a little too crazy to be real, because that's where the real magic happens.

Career Highlights

  • Creator of NexaDB & DBView: Built NexaDB – a lightweight NoSQL database with vector search, TOON format, and 25K+ ops/sec. Created DBView – a beautiful, native SQL client for macOS with AI-powered editor, ERD visualization, and SSH tunneling
  • Leading AI at Scale: Built 20K AI Doctors across 108 specialties in 19 languages with 1.5M translations for under $100K at Jivi AI. Launched 7 production systems including Sigma, Longevity, and Pulse
  • 10x Team Productivity: Led Praavi's ultra-lean team (2 core engineers) delivering complete neo-banking platform across 4 platforms in just 45 days
  • Startup Journey: Co-founded OneBharat and secured $10M valuation term sheet in 3 weeks. Built OnePulse (dynamic scoring) and OneCollect (SmartNach). Later returned term sheet after re-evaluating priorities – chose integrity over capital
  • Unicorn Engineering Leader: 4 years at BharatPe ($2.8B) as Associate Director → Director. Built BharatSwipe (₹700Cr+ transactions, 50K+ merchants), PostPe, Unity, 12% Club. Made CI/CD 12x faster. Scaled team from 20 to 200+ engineers
  • Growth at Scale: Led Growth Engineering at Blinkit/Grofers ($10B). Built referral systems, revamped rewards & cart, handled full-stack (Python, Node.js, React Native, Android, iOS)
  • Career Progression: PitchVision (2014-2019): Software Engineer → Senior SDE → Engineering Manager → Head of Engineering. Built PV-Review (1M+ deliveries analyzed), PV-TV, PV Match with live streaming
  • Community Builder: Founded GrowJS community in Delhi NCR – a thriving space for 500+ JavaScript engineers with regular meetups and knowledge sharing
  • College Achievement: JNTU Kakinada - A+ grade, 4 Academic Excellence Medals, Student of the Year, Best Engineer Award from District Collector, Infy Engineering Excellence Award. Director of App & Security club for 3 terms
  • 18+ Personal Projects: From Haifriend (2011, first project featured in 3 newspapers) to WittyClip (TikTok alternative, open-sourced). Built Heartynote at 19, IrcM (won Student of Year, presented at US conference), SaveChey, ShortChey, FormChey and more
National Ethical Hacking Champion 2013 | Student of the Year | Best Engineer Award
Top 1% on Topmate | 4 Academic Excellence Medals
Founded: Haifriend (2011), Heartynote, OneBharat, GrowJS, BookOn, WittyClip + 12 more
$12.8B+ Combined Valuation (BharatPe + Blinkit) | $10M OneBharat Valuation
10x Productivity @ Praavi | 12x Faster CI/CD @ BharatPe
20K AI Doctors | 1.5M Translations | 7 Production AI Systems @ Jivi AI

Tech Arsenal

Backend & API

JavaSpring BootNode.jsExpress.jsFastifyNestJSPythonFastAPIFlaskREST APIsGraphQLgRPCWebSocketsMicroservicesServerless

Frontend & Mobile

ReactNext.jsReduxTypeScriptReact NativeJavaScriptTailwindCSSWebpackViteElectronPWA

AI & ML

OpenAI APIGemini APIClaude APILangChainLangGraphPineconeMilvusWeaviateRAG PipelinesEmbeddingsFine-TuningPyTorchTensorFlowAI AgentsVoice AIWhisperElevenLabs

Databases & Data

PostgreSQLMySQLMongoDBDynamoDBRedisElasticSearchOpenSearchKafkaRabbitMQPrismaSequelizeTypeORM

Cloud & DevOps

AWS LambdaAWS EC2AWS S3GCPDockerKubernetesNginxTerraformCloudFormationCI/CDGitHub ActionsCloudflareVercelPrometheusGrafana

Fintech & Security

StripeRazorpayPlaidUPIOAuth2JWTOWASPSSL/TLSAES EncryptionWeb3.jsBlockchainSmart Contracts

Selected Projects

Open-source tools built for developers

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Live - Database

NexaDB

Creator | NoSQL + Vectors + TOON

A lightweight NoSQL database with vector search, TOON format, and enterprise security built-in. 25K+ ops/sec, 0.039ms latency, 200x faster vector search. One database, zero config.

25K+Ops/Sec
0.039msLatency
200xFaster Search
40-50%Size Reduction
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NexaDB
DBCraft
Live - Data Analytics

DBCraft

Creator | Open Source Metabase Alternative

Turn your database into beautiful dashboards in minutes. Visual query builder, 20+ chart types, self-hosted. Free forever.

RustBackend
20+Chart Types
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DBView
Live - Database Client

DBView

Creator | Modern SQL Client for macOS

Beautiful, fast, and native database client for macOS. Connect to MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite with AI-powered SQL editor.

NativemacOS App
AISQL Editor
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Control Tower
Live - Developer Tools

Control Tower

Creator | AI Assistant Usage Monitor

Unified macOS menu bar app to monitor all AI coding assistants. Track usage, quotas, and costs across Claude, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini & more.

6+AI Providers
NativemacOS App
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JsonToonCraft
Live - Developer Tools

JsonToonCraft

Creator | 10+ Free Developer Tools

JSON to TypeScript, Zod, OpenAPI. JWT debugging, Base64, UUID, hashing. 100% client-side.

10+Tools
100%Client-Side
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Selected Work

Building products that matter at scale

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UK Fintech
Sprive

SVP Engineering

Transforming UK fintech infrastructure and product to power smarter mortgage freedom, driving tech that fuels massive 300x business growth. Backed by Ascension, Channel 4 Ventures, and Velocity Capital with $9.5M in total funding.

$9.5MTotal Funded
300xBiz Growth
UK #1Mortgage App
Unicorn - $2.8B

Associate Director to Director - 4 Years

Revolutionizing Indian Merchant Payments. Built BharatSwipe, PostPe, Unity, 12% Club.

700Cr+TXN
50K+Merchants
12xCI/CD
Decacorn - $10B

Led Engineering @ Growth

Led Growth Engineering at India's largest quick-commerce platform. Full-stack ownership.

FullStack
4Revamps

Latest Blog Posts

Thoughts on engineering leadership, building products, and AI

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How We Survived Dragons' Den: 970 Requests Per Second, Zero Downtime

February 14, 2026 - 12 min read

How We Survived Dragons' Den: 970 Requests Per Second, Zero Downtime

When BBC's Dragons' Den featured Sprive, we faced 2.4 million requests in 2 hours. This is how our infrastructure handled the chaos, and the engineering decisions that made it possible.

ScaleInfrastructureKubernetes
3-Way Merge and Vector Clocks: The Backbone of Distributed Consistency

December 17, 2024 - 25 min read

3-Way Merge and Vector Clocks: The Backbone of Distributed Consistency

A deep dive into how 3-way merge algorithms and vector clocks power everything from Git to distributed databases. Understanding these fundamental concepts is essential for building resilient, conflict-free distributed systems.

Distributed SystemsAlgorithmsGit
The Silent Killer: How Prepared Statement Leaks Crash Production Databases

December 7, 2024 - 24 min read

The Silent Killer: How Prepared Statement Leaks Crash Production Databases

A deep dive into connection pooling issues caused by excess prepared statements—diagnosis techniques, root causes, and battle-tested solutions for database stability at scale.

DatabaseMySQLPerformance

Let's Build Together

Whether you need technical leadership, advisory support, or want to discuss innovative ideas – I'm always excited to connect with fellow builders and dreamers.

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