Summary
Harkunwar Kochar is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building performant, user-focused web and embedded systems, currently shaping data and visualization tooling at Databricks after impactful tenure at Splunk. He has led cross-functional features used by thousands—adding support for 100+ custom visualizations, shipping dashboard PDF scheduling for on-prem customers, and migrating large codebases from JS to TypeScript—while improving developer velocity through build and CI optimizations. Comfortable from low-level firmware to cloud services, he has contributed research-grade ML tooling (bootkmeans) and shipped embedded lighting firmware used in film and TV productions. A practiced Scrum Master and conference speaker, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and product sensibility to turn customer requests into secure, maintainable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish