Harsh Nanchahal
Enterprise Architect - Insights & Data
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHarsh Nanchahal is an enterprise architect and seasoned full-stack engineer with nine years of professional experience architecting cloud-native, serverless solutions and leading SRE and cloud platform teams. He has progressed from hands-on software engineering at IBM and Capgemini to leadership roles at Starbucks, where he led Site Reliability and Cloud Platform Engineering before returning to Capgemini to focus on data and insights architecture. Harsh blends deep technical skills—spanning Azure Serverless, DevOps, RBAC, and web services—with strong people and program management capabilities, including resource planning and attrition control. An active contributor to open-source operations tooling, he improved security and webhook handling in the well-known StackStorm automation platform, demonstrating practical impact on DevOps workflows. Based in Redmond, he pairs an electrical and advanced computing background with a talent for translating complex requirements into resilient, scalable systems. Colleagues know him for clear communication and a pragmatic drive to continuously improve platforms and team performance.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Kurukshetra UniversityDiploma in Advanced Computing, Diploma in Advanced Computing at CDAC
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
rbac10
ldap10
python10
authentication10
user-authentication10
automation10
automations10
devops10
cicd9
workflow-engine9
workflow-automation9
argo-workflows9
docker8
dockers8
remedy8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
StackStorm/st2
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, incident responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more for DevOps and SREs. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 26 commits, 16 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Harsh contributed to the StackStorm project by implementing LDAP authentication support and integrating RBAC functionality, which enhanced the platform's security and user management capabilities. They also addressed critical issues related to webhook handling, including the removal of authentication headers from webhook payloads. Furthermore, the user's work involved modifying the changelog and adapting the system to support features like timeout parameters for pack installations and improvements to stream and logging compatibility.
chatopsauto-remediationpythonexchangeevent-driven
hnanchahal/st2
Sep 2020 - Nov 2020
StackStorm (aka "IFTTT for Ops") is event-driven automation for auto-remediation, security responses, troubleshooting, deployments, and more. Includes rules engine, workflow, 160 integration packs with 6000+ actions (see https://exchange.stackstorm.org) and ChatOps. Installer at https://docs.stackstorm.com/install/index.html. Questions? https://forum.stackstorm.com/.
Contributions:4 PRs, 31 pushes, 10 branches in 2 months
chatopsauto-remediationexchangeforumhtml-questions
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