Summary
Harsh Pai is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building and scaling distributed systems across e-commerce, cloud, and enterprise platforms, now leading the GraphQL Platform at Wayfair. He combines hands-on engineering (AWS, Java, Python, React, SQL) with a track record of scaling services 10x, driving multi-million dollar revenue wins, and operating systems that handle hundreds of thousands of requests per second. At JPMorgan and AWS he led high-throughput backend teams and customer-facing portals, mentored 30+ engineers, and instituted processes that measurably improved velocity and competency. Known for rapidly prototyping to align product and engineering decisions, he also brings deep operational experience in monitoring, automated breach detection, and large-scale tracing. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends technical depth with people leadership and a consistent focus on measurable business impact.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Engineering Management, Master Engineering Management at Dartmouth College
BE Electronics & Telecommunication, BE Electronics & Telecommunication at University of Mumbai
Hindi, Marathi, Konkani