Hi, I'm Om Pharate 👋
Backend Engineer - Building scalable systems.
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About Me

I'm a Software Engineer and a final-year Computer Engineering student at the International Institute of Information Technology (I²IT), Pune. 🔭 I’m currently building Voxora. ⚡ I love building real-time systems and scalable backend infrastructure.

Work Experience

My professional journey and contributions to various organizations

O

Onecompiler.com

Feb 2025 - Present
SDE Intern
Implemented a custom Kubernetes controller in Go to automate the deployment of MySQL and ProxySQL custom resources in order to enable 2,000+ internal developers to instantly deploy their app databases to production. Wrote several scripts in Go to automate MySQL database failovers while maintaining master-slave replication topologies and keeping Zookeeper nodes consistent with changes.
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Voxora

July 2025 - Present
Maintainer and Lead Developer
Implemented a custom Kubernetes controller in Go to automate the deployment of MySQL and ProxySQL custom resources in order to enable 2,000+ internal developers to instantly deploy their app databases to production. Wrote several scripts in Go to automate MySQL database failovers while maintaining master-slave replication topologies and keeping Zookeeper nodes consistent with changes.

Open Source Contributions

All my pull requests and contributions to open source projects

Pull RequestOrganizationStatusDateActions
fix: render copy link button based on single use survey
TypeScript
React
F
Formbricks
merged
Aug 2025
View PR
Prevent email verification checks in preview mode
JavaScript
JSON
F
Formbricks
merged
July 2025
View PR
fix(tooltip): wrap TooltipContent in a Portal for improved rendering
TypeScript
React
F
Formbricks
merged
Aug 2025
View PR
9 total contributions across 6 organizations

Education

My academic background and qualifications

I

International Institute of Information Technology Pune.

2023 - 2026
Bachelor's Degree of Computer Engineering
I

Institute of Technology And Engineering Malegaon (Bk)

2020 - 2023
Diploma in Computer Engineering

Skills & Technologies

Technologies and tools I work with to build amazing products

React
Next.js
TypeScript
Python
PHP
Distributed Systems
FastApi
Node.js
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
AWS
Docker
Kubernetes
Langchain
Langgraph
Microservices
Serverless
Kafka
Redis
ElasticSearch
RabbitMQ

Featured Projects

Some of the projects I've built to solve real-world problems

Voxora - Open Source AI Live Support

Voxora - Open Source AI Live Support

System Design

Key Features:

•Built a scalable WebSocket & WebRTC backend for real-time chat and voice support
•Integrated LLM-powered AI assistant with live context handling
•Implemented Dockerized microservices and deployed on AWS with auto-scaling
•Enabled seamless AI + human handoff with <100ms latency

Technologies:

Next.js
Node.js
WebRTC
WebSockets
Docker
AWS ECS
Redis
Prisma ORM
PostgreSQL
OpenAI
Website
GitHub

MagicStocks.ai

System Design

Key Features:

•ChatGpt Integration
•Freelancing Project
•Subscription based model
•User-friendly experience
•Integrated with Razorpay

Technologies:

NextJs
Node Js
Express
Mongodb
ChatGpt Integration
TailwindCSS
Razorpay
Website
Source

My Articles

Deep dive into system design, low-level implementations, and engineering best practices

7
Total Articles
2
Featured

System architecture, scalability patterns, and distributed system designs for large-scale applications

Featured Articles

Featured

Designing a LeetCode System

Learn how to design an online coding platform like LeetCode with features such as problem management, online judge, code execution, leaderboards, and scalability.

Nov 2025
12 min read
System Design
Scalability
Databases
Online Judge
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Featured

Designing Twitter

Complete system design for building a social media platform like Twitter with features like tweet creation, user timelines, and real-time notifications.

Oct 2025
10 min read
System Design
Databases
Caching
Load Balancing
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More Articles

Designing a URL Shortener at Scale (TinyURL/Bit.ly)

Deep dive into designing a URL shortening service that can handle billions of URLs with high availability.

Dec 2025
8 min read
System Design
Microservices
WebSockets
Redis
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Designing a Serverless Chat Application

Learn how to design a scalable serverless chat application with features like real-time messaging, user presence, message persistence, and push notifications using serverless architecture.

Oct 2025
10 min read
System Design
Serverless
Real-time
Messaging
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Get in Touch

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