Harsh Kothari
Software Architect at Hippo Insurance
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolHarsh Kothari is a Software Architect based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of experience building scalable backend systems and distributed architectures. He has led platform and performance work at Salesforce and Hippo Insurance, delivering high-throughput event processing, API performance improvements, and service decoupling into microservices. Harsh combines deep systems engineering—designing in-memory distributed stores, buffered queues, and configurable data collectors—with hands-on implementation across Go, Python, and cloud-native deployments. Early work includes game-engine and AI bot design for multiplayer platforms and a Google Summer of Code project for Wikimedia, reflecting a long-standing commitment to open source and developer tooling. He pairs a Rutgers Computer Science graduate education with a history of public speaking at international OSS conferences, signaling both technical depth and community leadership. Notably, he has repeatedly driven 10x+ performance gains by rethinking architecture and caching strategies rather than incremental fixes.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at Ashish Higher Secondary SchoolBachelor’s Degree Electronics & Communication, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics & Communication at L.D. College of EngineeringMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Rutgers University
English, Gujarati, Hindi
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Github Skills (74)
health10
javascript9
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decorators9
nodejs-api9
multer9
firebase9
nodejs9
readable8
dependency-injection8
middleware8
golang8
rest-api8
compilation8
socket-io8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
harshkothari410/harshkothari.com
Sep 2015 - May 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 8 months
harshkothari410/oeis-graph-mining
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 11 days
pythonminingoeisinterestingrelationship
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