About

Harshit Anand is a highly innovative software developer and technology enthusiast with over 9 years of relevant experience. He has a strong passion for working with exciting tech stacks that can enhance his understanding of technology. Harshit is currently serving as a Career Coach & Mentor at Scaler Academy. Harshit has extensive experience in building Dapps, Web3, and Blockchain. He has worked as a Lead Backend Dev for BYJUS web & order management team, where he was responsible for managing a team of 14 engineers. He has also handled the entire DevOps & AWS Infra for both the teams, thus managing the entire deployment process, CI/CD, release projections, and more. Harshit has revamped the entire OMS backend Infra to transform it into microservices along with serverless/lambda services for handling triggers, periodic data optimizations & transformations. He has also implemented SSO (Single SignIn) for 5 separate web apps with AWS-Cognito API, creating User Polls & Federated Identities to make user identification available across apps. Harshit has worked with multiple fintech partners like ZestMoney, EzCred, Avanse, IIFL, etc., to improvise loan-based payment purchase of BYJUS products. He has also worked with stich apps & AWS batch jobs in the process of optimizing recursive crons and heavy data transactions on DB. Harshit has used micro containers aka unikernels to scale microservices Infra to hit close to 10000 concurrent requests per second. Harshit's tech stack includes NodeJs, Express, Loopback, JavaScript, MongoDb, MySQL, Nginx, AWS, Microservices, Serverless, ELK, ReactJs, Jenkins, Shipit, Ansible, Docker, ES6, and Jira. He has previously worked as a Principal Software Engineer at Spacejoy and Director Of Engineering - APAC at JLL. Harshit holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from Raj Kumar Goel Institute of Technology, Ghaziabad. In summary, Harshit Anand is a highly skilled and experienced software developer with a passion for innovative technology. He is a team player and an excellent mentor who is always looking for exciting opportunities to elevate his learning curve exponentially.