About

Harish Arora is a highly experienced software engineer with over 15 years of R&D experience in the software industry. He has a strong passion for new technology and is always updated with the latest trends in the industry. Harish has extensive experience in the design and development of software products, mainly in storage, virtualization, server, and cloud. He has a solid background in database management, including Postgres SQL, IBM Cloudant, and MongoDB. Harish is also experienced in implementing microservices using REST and gRPC and has implemented complete CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Travis. Harish has experience in all phases of SDLC and has successfully shifted teams to Agile and Scrum methodologies. He has experience in Spark and provides library support for Spark 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4. Harish has also worked on Container orchestration using Docker, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm, Helm, and cloud packs. He is proficient in using Google Suite, including gRPC, protobuf, buildiozer, buildifier, bazel, starlark, and protoc. Harish is also experienced in security and certificate management for k8s application using lets encrypt and custom CA manager. Harish is a tech leader and mentor who has delivered training on Git, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and brought team members to the same technical skill level. He is proficient in conceptulizing ideas and productizing the PoC. Harish is skilled in controlling project management activity using Jira, Confluence, and Rally, and prioritizing delivery in time-bound activities. He has contributed to the Google Bazel project as an open-source contributor. Harish has worked for leading companies such as VMware, IBM, and Hewlett Packard. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at VMware, where he is leading the effort in migrating the build system for ESX hypervisor from Scons (Python) to Google's Bazel (skylark and custom rules). Harish has a Master of Technology (M.Tech.) in Software Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is proficient in programming languages such as Adobe Flex, Java, C, C++, Python, Shell, starlark, bazel, node, YAML, and Golang. Harish has excellent debugging skills and problem understanding capabilities.