About

Harsha K Y is a passionate Full Stack Web Developer with 2.19 years of relevant experience in building web apps with Ruby on Rails, Node.js, mongoDB, Express.js, Angular.js, and React.js. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Pace University and has worked for companies such as Bewakoof and Thoughtnext Technology. Currently, Harsha is working as an SDE I at Bewakoof, where he is the lead backend developer for the WhatsApp communications project. He has built APIs to track order status and automatically send notifications to customers. Harsha has also led the backend development for the social feed called BShots, where he integrated the recommender system into the social feed and provided APIs that authenticated customers and enabled them to share posts about the products they bought. He has also built a "combo offer system" that customized and grouped together products that could be bought at a discounted rate. Additionally, Harsha has led the effort that translated Bewakoof.com's website to regional languages and built a microservice that stores and serves translated text, which is indexed using Elasticsearch. He has also led the backend work for the international shipping project, where he built a service to handle product visibility for international users. Prior to Bewakoof, Harsha worked as a Full Stack Engineer at Thoughtnext Technology, where he was responsible for end-to-end web development for all client projects. He has built a chatbot using Dialogflow and Twilio that allows users to order food using WhatsApp. Harsha has also hosted a client project on Digital Ocean and did load balancing, caching using Nginx. He has developed the billing system for their E-Learning product using Angular, Node.js, and MongoDB. Additionally, Harsha was involved heavily in the DevOps process and handled the merging of pull requests and deployment on AWS. Harsha has completed his Master of Science in Computer Science from Pace University and his Master of Computer Applications from PES University. He also holds a Bachelor of Computer Application degree from St. Joseph's College. Harsha is proficient in Software Engineering, Javascript, Ruby, MongoDB, Backend, Web, NodeJS, AWS, Elastic Search, Microservices, AngularJS, DevOps, ReactJS, and Test.