Harish Krishna
Director, Engineering at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarish Krishna is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building scalable products and global teams, currently serving as Director of Engineering in New York. He has a strong track record taking products from 0 to 1 and turning around mature businesses—most notably launching and scaling WeWork’s first enterprise SaaS and consumer offerings while guiding the company toward profitability and public markets. Equally comfortable in early-stage ventures and large organizations, he blends product-driven strategy with hands-on engineering rigor, having co-founded Kuvera.ai and served as a fractional CTO across diverse industries. A longtime contributor to open-source geospatial projects (including work on the Pelias geocoder and Tilezen vector datasource SQL), he brings practical expertise in mapping, spatial queries and data-driven backend systems. Harish’s background spans international expansion and localization—he built China-specific tech stacks and developer communities for WeWork—which underscores his aptitude for cross-cultural team building and market adaptation. He holds an MS in Computer Science and combines startup resilience, creative problem solving, and operational discipline to deliver measurable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at ArlingtonJawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (21)
plpgsql10
pgsql10
postgresql10
apidoc10
amazon-elasticsearch10
vector-tiles10
pg10
elasticsearchquery10
psql10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
sql10
geocoding10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pelias/api
Sep 2014 - Aug 2015
HTTP API for Pelias Geocoder
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 293 commits, 59 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Harish contributed to the development of the Pelias Geocoder API. They added a search API endpoint and implemented features for location-aware search using latitude and longitude coordinates. Their work involved modifying the query logic to incorporate distance-based filtering and sorting. The user also implemented a reverse geocoding endpoint.
apipythongeocodinggeocoderpelias
tilezen/vector-datasource
Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
Tilezen vector tile service - OpenStreetMap data in several formats
Role in this project:Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:51 commits, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Harish primarily focused on modifying and enhancing SQL queries within the PostgreSQL database, likely for vector tile generation. Their contributions involved adding and modifying columns in SQL queries, specifically targeting water areas and points of interest. They also updated the SQL queries at various zoom levels and adapted them for integration with other systems, and also addressed merging conflicts. The work included creating new queries and refactoring zoom levels to improve performance or data structure.
pythonfltkmap-editortilesetmapzen
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