Summary
Harsh Kumar is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade of experience and a strong academic foundation from IIT Kanpur (BTech, Electrical Engineering, GPA 9.33/10). He has progressed through multiple engineering roles and internships at Microsoft, where he prototyped gRPC optimizations in C# to balance memory and performance trade-offs between gRPC and REST for data extraction. Known for disciplined work ethic and rapid learning, he reliably drives engineering tasks to completion and adapts quickly to system-level challenges. Beyond coding, he has supported student governance and mentoring initiatives at IIT Kanpur, showing a penchant for improving processes and helping peers. Based in Hyderabad, Harsh combines systems-level thinking with practical engineering rigor, favoring deterministic results over flashy creativity. His profile suggests a strong capacity for backend performance tuning and production-proof-of-concept development that yields measurable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
95.2 %, 95.2 % at Mother's Public School
97.4 %, 97.4 % at Loyola School, Bhubaneshwar
Hindi, English, Odia