About

Harshit Chawla is a skilled Software Engineer with over 4 years of industrial experience in developing software solutions. He has a good hands-on knowledge of Python, Java, data structure & algorithms, software containerization platforms like Docker, container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, and source code management tools like Git. Harshit is proficient in developing CI/CD pipelines and has experience with automation/integration tools like Jenkins. He also has knowledge of major cloud service providers like AWS and a good understanding of Infrastructure as Code using tools like Terraform and Ansible. Currently, Harshit is working as a Software Development Engineer II - Cloud Platform & Tools at Groupon. In his current role, he is supporting the migration of applications from on-prem data-centre to cloud using AWS as the cloud provider and Kubernetes as the container orchestrator and Docker as the container technology. He is developing tooling and frameworks that ease the migration process and automating stuff for migration, thereby improving customer/developer experience. Harshit is also supporting the service owners for their cloud migration effort, prescribing the changes required by the service owners while moving to cloud, and acting as a conduit between service teams and other teams (Logging, Metrics, Infrastructure, etc) to ensure a seamless migration to cloud. He also envisages the future of cloud computing and prescribes the best practices. Harshit has previously worked as a Software Engineer - Cloud Platform & Distributed Systems at Groupon, where he built and maintained large scale Kubernetes production-grade clusters on top of AWS infrastructure. He has also worked as a Software Engineer Intern at Groupon, where he built and operated Kubernetes clusters and developed highly scalable tools used to package applications into Docker Containers. Harshit has a Master of Science - MS degree in Computer Science from University College Dublin and a Bachelor of Engineering - BE degree in Computer Science & Engineering from N M A M Institute of Technology, Nitte. He possesses a strong tech stack that includes skills in Software Engineering, Kubernetes, AWS, infra, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Ansible, Integration, Python, Jenkins, Java, and test. Overall, Harshit has a relevant experience of 6.03 years in the software development industry.