About

Harsimran Kaur is a Senior Software Developer at Coursera with over 9 years of relevant experience. She has worked in startups, both service-based and product-based, and has been involved in building products from the ground up. She has been a part of core teams of companies that have now scaled. Her key values include simplicity and greater security, and she believes that if something is not documented, it does not exist. Harsimran has expertise in Golang, Java, and JavaScript and has worked with clients based in the U.S. for the development of web-based applications. She has been involved in both the conceptualization and implementation of the front-end interface and server architecture. She has also built a platform based on microservice architecture from core, integrated with the enterprise-level codebase, and used various technologies such as Node.js, MongoDB, C#, MySQL, elastic-search, and RabbitMQ for the backend. Apart from her professional career, Harsimran is also the Secretary of the Himalayan Explorers' Club responsible for organizing adventurous and fitness activities at IIT Roorkee. These activities include organizing trips like rafting, paragliding, camping, skiing, national park visits, and treks ranging from 20km to 60kms. She has also worked as Joint Secretary in Conditioning and Training Department and as Secretary in Regional Development Department. Harsimran holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Biotechnology from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Her tech stack includes software engineering, JavaScript, Golang, Java, RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, microservices, search, backend, NodeJS, frontend, and web. With her expertise and experience, Harsimran is a valuable asset to any organization she is a part of.