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Blinkit at WWDC 24

nupur.bharadwaj | July 8, 2024 | 6 mins read

Blinkit at WWDC 24

A Dream Come True 

When I told Tim Cook about the 10 minute iPhone delivery by Blinkit his reaction was, “that’s crazy”, and all I could think

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Team Blinkit | March 16, 2023 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Sumanth Reddy

Sumanth Reddy is helping us build a resilient application platform at Blinkit. He currently works as a part of Software Resilience Engineering (SRE)–enabling scalable database migrations for Blinkit’s applications

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Team Blinkit | February 23, 2023 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Jay Dihenkar

Jay Dihenkar is a Staff Engineer at Blinkit. He joined us in December 2020 and has helped different teams manage and streamline their build and release processes

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Rukmini Bhattacharya | December 22, 2022 | 5 mins read

My journey at Blinkit: A series of epiphanies

Rukmini works as the City CEO of Bengaluru and heads growth. Here she recollects her journey transition from Zomato and fostering new experiences working with Blinkit

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Tech Team | November 10, 2022 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Avi Raghuwanshi

Avi joined us on our instant delivery journey in July 2022 and previously worked on upselling and cross selling through product listing pages during his first two months

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Tech Team | July 14, 2022 | 6 mins read

In Focus: Aditya Shaha

Aditya began his journey at Blinkit almost 3.5 years ago, as an intern in the Data Science and Engineering team, even before graduating from college

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Tech Team | June 23, 2022 | 6 mins read

In Focus: Utkarsh Shukla

Having the ability to solve problems and make decisions, not just through hunches or intuitions that one develops over time, matters the most

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Tech Team | April 14, 2022 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Vaibhav Krishna

The technology industry can only thrive when everyone has access to it and this, in turn, makes sure that, with access, everyone grows

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Tech Team | March 31, 2022 | 8 mins read

Women in Tech: Ekta Garg

Ekta currently works on the experience that a customer entails after checkout at Blinkit and here, she shares her journey as a woman in technology

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Tech Team | March 3, 2022 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Vaibhav Vashishtha

When you like the place you are working at and the people you are working with, It is not as difficult to maintain a work-life balance

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Tech Team | February 10, 2022 | 5 mins read

Women in Tech: Mani Sharma

Mani Sharma takes care of all things data within the store ops team. We talked to her about her journey as a woman in technology

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Tech Team | January 13, 2022 | 6 mins read

In Focus: Deepu Thomas Philip

“I love our culture of blameless RCAs and how we leverage failures for continuous learning and introspection as an organization.”

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Siddhanth Gupta | December 30, 2021 | 5 mins read

How to be a Great Managee

Some learnings in management from personal anecdotes and stories around the coffee machine

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Tech Team | December 22, 2021 | 9 mins read

Women in Tech: Sampada

“You are your only limit. And limits are meant to be stretched to figure out our capabilities.”

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Manik Chawla | December 2, 2021 | 5 mins read

First 12 Months at Blinkit: Manik Chawla

It’s in the company’s culture that everyone tries to solve the biggest problems for our customers regardless of their title

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Tech Team | October 7, 2021 | 6 mins read

Women in Tech: Shivangi

Skills can be learnt, but in the end, it’s the people factor that can make you grow or fall

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Team Blinkit | September 30, 2021 | 5 mins read

First 6 months at Blinkit: Pranav Prakash

Skill sets in our team range from software development to design to data to research, and everyone shares their learnings

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Vishesh Jindal | September 23, 2021 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Vishesh Jindal

Being part of the Devops team, you get to build platforms and services for developers but that’s not all

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Team Blinkit | September 9, 2021 | 4 mins read

In Focus: Satyam Krishna

Building tech is not just about building awesome systems but building a sustainable business as well

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grofers | August 26, 2021 | 7 mins read

In Focus: Prateek Gupta

To summarise, make yourself valuable to the system; not critical. And most importantly don’t forget to have a lot of fun

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Vijay Lakra | August 23, 2021 | 4 mins read

The Habit Loop

We are what we repeatedly do

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Akshat Bansal | August 20, 2021 | 2 mins read

How to have fun at work

Some grofers-centric insights on how you can do what you do in a lighter way by setting the right goals

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Ankur Saxena | July 20, 2021 | 3 mins read

Freedom and responsibility

We are all constantly working on making ourselves redundant in our current roles. And that’s where the magic happens

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Akanksha Priyadarshini | July 15, 2021 | 5 mins read

Women in Tech: Akanksha Priyadarshini

“Unknowns are definitely scary but saying yes to them has always been surprising” – and more from her tech journey

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grofers | July 6, 2021 | 3 mins read

“We innovate and learn fast”

Pavitra Agarwal shares her journey at grofers so far and how our mission is making a difference

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Karthik Kamal B | July 1, 2021 | 4 mins read

How I Work: The art of balancing

Some thoughts on what it takes to strike a balance in an organisation by strategizing accordingly

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grofers | June 24, 2021 | 6 mins read

In Focus: Sancheeta Kaushal

Some insightful thoughts on her journey, technology and the role women are playing this space

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Devika Razdan | April 25, 2020 | 7 mins read

How I Work: Devika Razdan

At Grofers, we have some of the smartest people who collaborate to do great work.

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Prateek Keshari | March 12, 2020 | 4 mins read

In focus: Vinayak Mehta

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Siddhartha Mishra | November 18, 2019 | 7 mins read

How my Grofers internship came to be

In May 2019, I started my internship at Grofers — India’s largest online grocery retailer.

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Vinayak Mehta | May 27, 2019 | 3 mins read

Community Update: Announcing Grofers Tech Talks!

We’re excited to announce Grofers Tech Talks! This is an initiative towards our bid to foster an open exchange of ideas around technology.

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Vinayak Mehta | March 19, 2019 | 3 mins read

Community Update — March 2019 (Bangalore)

Last weekend we hosted BangPypers — Bangalore Python Users Group, a monthly meetup where developers meet.

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Avinash Jain | March 18, 2019 | 2 mins read

Community Update — March 2019 (Gurgaon)

This Saturday we hosted this month’s batch of meetups and we want to say a big ‘thanks’ to all the community members.

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Kasisnu Singh | October 23, 2018 | 1 min read

Community Development @ Grofers

At Grofers Tech, we’ve been working on reaching out to the developer community and one of the ways is by becoming a great venue for meetups!

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Ashish Dubey | April 7, 2018 | 3 mins read

Show and Tell S02E01

On Thursday, April 5th this year was the reboot of the Show and Tell meetings that some engineering teams have been doing at Grofers. The difference this time was that this one was attended by all teams.

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Albinder Dhindsa | December 27, 2017 | 3 mins read

For our team, past and present

Today, it’s officially 4 years of Grofers – on 27th December 2013, I registered the domain name grofers.com for ₹499 and we started on the journey to becoming Grofers from onenumber.

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Abhinav Desor | November 20, 2017 | 7 mins read

A crazy, wild, roller-coaster ride

Abhinav Desor is one of the first members of our tech team and has worked on the Grofers product from scratch. In this post, he recounts his journey with us.

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grofers | August 14, 2017 | 2 mins read

#Mission1Million

Last year on 15th August, we joined hands with the Robin Hood Army to help the underprivileged and achieve #Mission500k.

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grofers | July 24, 2017 | 1 min read

Grofers gives you wings. Literally!

True delight is experienced in those small moments where you get something more than expected. Shopping at Grofers is not just about carting your daily needs and getting them home delivered. We believe in giving you more than you expected.

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Satyajeet Tripathy | April 26, 2017 | 6 mins read

My one year @Grofers

Culture in a corporate organization is the most frivolously used yet the most important term. Let me quote a few biggies of the world stating their very different views on company culture. 

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Tech Team | April 23, 2016 | 2 mins read

Grofers twist: bringing art and technology together

When you work in the world of design, everything around you is an inspiration for something bigger. However, one thing that separates designers from others is the artistic interpretation that the former can lend to seemingly mundane objects.

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PR Team | March 22, 2016 | 1 min read

Tuesdays, gifts and lots of fun

Tuesday can be said as the second-most boring day of the week for most of us. This Tuesday, we decided to make the day fun for some of our customers. They were all in for a fruity surprise.

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PR Team | February 9, 2016 | 3 mins read

The first two deals – that’s how it all started!

Dhruv is one of our first employees and our first ‘sales guy’.

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Nitesh Jemni | January 21, 2016 | 6 mins read

The story of the Grofers logo from the desk of its designer

Nitesh Jemni is the first UI/UX designer of Grofers. He is currently working as the UI/UX Design Lead.

Hyperlocal is the new buzzword in town.

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PR Team | December 27, 2015 | 8 mins read

Grofers turns 2

Behind every great business is a team of hard-working people who will get things done no matter what it takes.

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Rishi Arora | December 10, 2015 | 3 mins read

My early days at Grofers

In the sweltering heat of Gurgaon in July 2014, I was hell-bent to put all my energy into getting a few racks inside an office.

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PR Team | October 14, 2015 | 2 mins read

Grofers Campus Challenge – win an iPhone 6s

Are you someone who says +1 instead of ‘me too’? Are you someone who finishes a coding session to realise that you have missed five meals already?

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Albinder Dhindsa | November 7, 2014 | 2 mins read

Timing the hiring

While we are very young company, hiring has been pro-actively on the top of things that we needed to build a capability in.

You have reached the end of our appetite.

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