About

Harshit Vasu is a highly motivated software engineer with over 3 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is a graduate of Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering and a Master of Science degree. Harshit is passionate about building products that make a visible impact by solving real-world problems. He is a visionary with a genuine alignment with product, making him an excellent problem solver. Currently, Harshit is working as a Software Engineer at Browserstack, one of the most valuable SAAS unicorns in India. He is part of the backend engineering team responsible for scaling the core products. Harshit has streamlined user onboarding through gamification of integration guide, leading to a 30% rise in primary onboarding metrics. He has also released Browserstack Jenkins plugin with multi-proxy support, resulting in an increase in customer adoption. Harshit has worked with product managers and the content team to improve the official documentation by creating multiple front-end widgets and introducing new features, leading to a rise in average feedback score by 40%. Additionally, he provides essential support engineering for mobile and desktop testing products serving over 50 thousand customers in more than 135 countries. Before joining Browserstack, Harshit worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Shipsy, where he built RESTful API's using NestJS. He revamped the user management by adding essential features like user invitations, email alerts, and user access management. Harshit integrated NestJS server with email delivery service Sendgrid for sending daily mailers, providing users with a consolidated report of their shipments in an easy-to-read Excel sheet format. He also created a service built on top of Flask for automating archaic FTP based shipment booking system. Harshit has also served as the All India Head at Searock 2016, where he managed a team of 30 students in organizing the semi-professional band competition of BITS Goa. He raised 1 lakh prize money through sponsorships, registrations, and tickets that was distributed to the top three bands in the finals held at BITS Goa. Harshit recorded a total participation of over 300 bands, more than any other version of Searock in history. Harshit's tech stack includes software engineering, test, backend, Ruby, Jenkins, integration, mobile, Flask, Javascript, Typescript, MySQL, image processing, Selenium, NoSQL, and frontend. He is passionate about shipping code that is readable, reusable, and upgradable.