About

Harsh Kumar is a seasoned backend service developer with over 10 years of experience in the industry, currently serving as a Principal Software Engineer Manager at Microsoft. He has also worked at two startups, namely Jugnoo and WizCal. Harsh is highly skilled in creating, maintaining, monitoring, and rolling out new services and features for existing production services used at a global scale. He is well-versed in the concepts of distributed computing and microservices and can design highly scalable systems. Harsh is proficient in learning and ramping up on new technologies and concepts, which enables him to deliver impact quickly. His technical expertise includes software engineering, microservices, backend development, Spark, Redis, Elastic Search, and infrastructure. In his current role at Microsoft, Harsh leads a team of software engineers and is responsible for managing the development of new services and features. He has also contributed to the hiring process, participating in over 100 interviews in the last three years. In his previous roles at Microsoft, Harsh has designed and architected scale improvements and reduced costs by 40% for auditing by using open-source technologies like Spark and Redis. He has also collaborated across disciplines and feature teams to develop an intelligent solution for real-time classification and identification of sensitive information in text added to Word documents. Harsh holds a Dual Degree (B.Tech and M.Tech) in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.