About

Prashant Pal is a Principal Software Engineer at Harness, with over 10 years of experience in the computer software industry. He is a skilled Full Stack Developer proficient in Python, Ruby, Java (Spring/Hibernate), and Javascript (React/Angular/Nodejs). Prashant has a strong engineering background with a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) focused in Electrical Engineering (Power) from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. At Harness, Prashant ideated, designed, and implemented a distributed fault-tolerant orchestration engine that served multiple teams and supported 1 million pipeline executions per day. He was responsible for scaling the platform and performing performance tests to serve the needs of the ever-growing Harness user base. Prashant also played a key role in helping Harness migrate from a monolith architecture to microservices. Prior to his current role, Prashant worked as a Staff Software Engineer at Harness, where he enhanced and maintained a workflow engine to support 50k pipeline executions per day. He also developed tools to provide visibility into database queries and reduce production issues. Before joining Harness, Prashant was a Technology expert at Auroville Investment Management, where he was the first tech person on the team. He set up git repos, tech stacks, and best practices, and developed various applications for research management and reporting tools integrated with Bloomberg and Paladyne (OMS/PMS). Prashant's technical expertise includes Software Engineering, Javascript, Spring, Microservices, NodeJS, Python, Ruby, Java, and Research Science. He is a senior software engineer with a demonstrated history of delivering high-quality software solutions. Prashant is a proactive problem solver who can work independently or as part of a team. He is an excellent communicator and can explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.