About

Harshit Sharma is a problem solver with over 11 years of experience in the field of technology. He is currently the Co-Founder and CTO of 56 Secure, a company that aims to make security affordable and effective for millions of Indians through the use of technology. Prior to his current role, Harshit was a Senior Research Engineer at Ola, where he was a founding team member of the Data Science and Data Platform teams. He built and deployed models that served millions of trips in a day, including a drop point and pickup point suggestion model that improved both customer and driver partner experience. Harshit also worked on demand forecasting using deep learning techniques such as LSTM, customer segmentation and analysis for churn prediction, and setting up scalable analytics architecture from scratch to help business expansion and growth using data. He presented and prototyped various ideas regarding key user identification, location information extraction, and geo-spatial analysis. Harshit also worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Beevolve, where he enabled the Social Media Analytics Dashboard and other analytics in the core Social Media Monitoring platform. He wrote a customized Python library for search and retrieval on Solr, wrote a better Gender Classifier for Twitter Users, and developed a viral app as part of various growth hacking exercises. Harshit also worked on generating a Twitter Directory for 40 million Twitter users segmented by Industry, Gender, Country, City, Followers, Following, and more. This Twitter study got broad coverage across tech blogs and print media. Harshit's tech stack includes AI, research scientist, deep learning, big data, data scientist, software engineer, Python, and search. He is also an active contributor on GitHub and Medium. Harshit's passion for solving problems and his expertise in technology make him a valuable asset to any team.