About

Harshal Bhatia is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 4 years of experience in the field. He has a strong background in DevOps technologies, including Kubernetes, Gitlab, Chef, Ruby, Rails, and React, Express, Node, and Javascript on the frontend. He is currently working as a Platform Engineer at gojek, where he is using cutting-edge technologies like Kubernetes (K8s), GCP, Linux, Docker, CI, Gitlab, Chef, and Ansible. At gojek, Harshal is part of the team responsible for developer productivity as part of their centralized DevOps/Platform group. He provides a platform as a service (PaaS) for developers that manages deployments, abstracting both VM and Kubernetes. He is routinely exposed to several high-scale systems, development, and debugging production issues. He has contributed to several backend systems, using Ruby on Rails and Gitlab CI. He also started and led the project to set up an internal developer portal (similar to Spotify's Backstage) using React, Mobx-State-Tree, Ant Design, etc. He has scaled Gojek's central Gitlab instance from 1K active users to 6K active users. Prior to joining gojek, Harshal worked as a Software Engineer at dailyhunt vers innovation pvt ltd. He was the youngest hire of the company and started working full-time at the end of his 2nd year (Sophomore), alongside college. He worked on Dailyhunt’s mobile site, a progressive web app, using React front-end with APIs written in Express. He also built a web-based service to dynamically generate infographics and serve them, using Puppeteer, Express, EJS. Harshal holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Dr. Ambedkar Institute of Technology. He has a strong tech stack, including Software Engineering, DevOps, Ruby, Kubernetes, Javascript, Frontend, Web, GCP, Backend, Ansible, Docker, AWS, Mobile, Redis, SQL, Terraform, test, Typescript, and MySQL. He is a highly skilled and experienced software engineer with a passion for using cutting-edge technologies to solve complex problems.