Harit Himanshu
Co-Founder & CTO at LinkedIn
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolHarit Himanshu is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 14 years of experience building production-grade systems, currently serving as Co-Founder & CTO of BetterMenu, a recipe formulation platform accelerating food products to market. He combines hands-on engineering—demonstrated by Scala back-end and DevOps work that packaged and deployed services via JARs and Docker—to deliver scalable AI-enabled products across F&B, health, and startup ecosystems. As co-founder of bonsaiilabs and a prolific educator for Pluralsight and LinkedIn Learning, he translates cutting-edge AI (RAG, LangChain, embeddings) into practical courses and production-ready solutions. His background spans high-impact roles at Yahoo, SunRun, and enterprise security teams, bringing experience in pricing engines, analytics pipelines, and large-scale classroom platforms used by millions. Based in Vancouver, he blends product intuition with developer tooling expertise and a curious builder mindset—evident in both open-source Scala projects and a popular technical YouTube presence. Harit’s mix of teaching, shipping, and API-first product design makes him adept at turning complex data into usable, industry-facing software.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science, B.Tech Computer Science at Uttar Pradesh Technical UniversityMasters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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189answers
951questions
authentication
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windows
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flask-sqlalchemy
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migration
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java
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Github Skills (29)
docker10
apidoc10
sbt10
dockers10
scala10
scalatest10
api10
rest10
curl10
flask10
authentication9
java9
migration9
akka-http9
python9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
hhimanshu/sbt-getting-started
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Learn to use sbt with Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:53 commits, 12 PRs, 41 pushes in 25 days
Contributions summary:Harit primarily focused on developing and testing a Scala-based application using sbt. They implemented core functionalities, including a calculator and an API for fetching exchange rates. Furthermore, the user demonstrated DevOps skills by packaging the project into a JAR and Docker image and deploying it to Bintray and Heroku. The contributions suggest a proficiency in building, testing, and deploying Scala applications with supporting infrastructure.
pluralsightpluralsight-coursesbt-pluginscalasbt
hhimanshu/hhimanshu.github.io
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 247 pushes in 11 months
reactweb-application
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