About

Harshit Gangal is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer with over 11 years of experience in the computer software industry. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at PlanetScale, where he is responsible for scaling MySQL and beyond. Harshit has a strong background in building distributed databases and is well-versed in various software engineering technologies. He holds a B.Tech degree in Computer Science from Jaypee Institute of Information Technology. Prior to joining PlanetScale, Harshit worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, where he worked on Read only Databases with optimized (low cost) storage having bulk ingestion and low latency reads. He also worked in Ads Optimization Team (Robot Detection). Before that, he worked as a Software Development Engineer II at Flipkart, where he worked on Tiered Data Store and scaling Database Systems. Harshit's technical expertise includes Software Engineering and MySQL. He is a highly motivated and dedicated professional who is committed to delivering high-quality work. In summary, Harshit Gangal is an experienced Senior Software Engineer with a proven track record of building distributed databases. He is a strong engineering professional with a passion for software engineering and a commitment to delivering high-quality work.