About

Harshit Mehta is an experienced and detail-oriented Developer Relations Professional with over 8 years of experience in Developer Marketing, Community Building, Community Management, Program Management, Channel Marketing, Product Marketing, Digital Marketing, Event Management, Strategic Planning and Execution. He is currently working as a Senior Developer Relations and Programs Manager at Topcoder, where he has built a presence in the developer network and executed various developer adoption marketing campaigns for Topcoder clients and partners. Harshit has successfully grown the community in South-East Asia from 100k to 400k Developers and conducted over 200+ sessions and events in universities and developer events worldwide. He has worked with clients like Apple, Adobe, Databricks, IBM Watson, and HP Idol APIs to facilitate developer adoption on their platform through marketing campaigns, training and other platform engagement initiatives. He has also planned and executed strategic community engagement and developer marketing efforts for campaigns and events worldwide. In addition, Harshit has managed a team of six remote developer evangelists across the globe and helped and guided them to execute 20+ community-building programs and competitions in their region. He has successfully established and managed 10+ B2B partnerships and marketing relationships with several developer platforms. Harshit's past experiences include working as a Software Developer Intern at Arcelormittal and as a Research Intern at IIIT Hyderabad. He has a PGBDE degree in Big Data Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Computer Science from LNM Institute of Information Technology. Harshit's tech stack includes MongoDB, Databricks, Java, and he has relevant experience of 8.20 years. He is passionate about working in positions where he can lead, challenge and be challenged to solve problems, develop programs and build relationships.