Harsh Gundecha
Founding Engineer at toast
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolHarsh Gundecha is a founding engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems, payment integrations, and operational tooling across startups in Bengaluru. He has shipped production services using Java/Spring, Node, Django and PostgreSQL, and has a strong DevOps lean—optimizing infra to cut costs 40%, enabling HPA, and creating observability with Grafana. At Gojek he fixed a high-impact concurrency bug and implemented a zero-downtime DB index on a critical payments path, demonstrating care for reliability under pressure. He’s built systems from delivery orchestration and geospatial services using H3 and PostGIS to scheduled notification engines and Kafka-backed caches. A continuous learner fascinated by system design and operating systems, he pairs curiosity with pragmatism—an optimist who plans for worst-case scenarios. Based in Bengaluru, he prefers clean, scriptable automation and has a soft spot for Markdown.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
School Business/Commerce General, School Business/Commerce General at Mahidharpura Urban High SchoolBachelor of Computer Application - BCA Information Technology, Bachelor of Computer Application - BCA Information Technology at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, SuratSchool, School at Brightland English Medium High SchoolM.Sc. (IT) Information and Communication Technology, M.Sc. (IT) Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
Gujarati, Hindi, English, Marwari
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Github Skills (25)
admin10
bootstrap10
adminlte10
dashboard9
touchpad7
html6
sql6
jquery6
python6
java6
javascript6
postgresql6
mysql6
gestures5
rotate4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
HarshGundecha/e_learn
Nov 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes in 2 years 8 months
HarshGundecha/exchange-system-for-university
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:111 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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