Harsh Parekh
Senior Software Engineer at Ikigai
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolHarsh Parekh is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge, MA with nine years of experience building performant systems and developer tooling. He has progressed through multiple engineering roles at Ikigai, where he has optimized AI workloads with cache-efficient memory layouts, built subscription and billing infrastructure, and implemented RBAC for production services. His background includes research in approximation algorithms and hands-on academic engineering as Head TA at UPenn, where he created course automation, Dockerized lab environments, and an open-source Gradescope autograder library. Comfortable bridging research and production, he brings a practised eye for performance, reproducible environments, and scalable backend systems.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Rutgers University – CamdenHigher Secondary Education, Computer Science, 90.2%, Higher Secondary Education, Computer Science, 90.2% at Mithibai College of Arts Chauhan Institute of Science and A.J. College of Commerce and EconomicsMaster of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science, Computer Science, Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science, Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
reader10
python10
gevent10
quart10
twisted10
flask10
tornado10
wsgi10
pyramid10
python-web10
webapp10
android-application10
shell10
music10
cli10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
hXtreme/scripts
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
Bunch of scripts that try to make my life easier.
Contributions:7 PRs, 17 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
scriptpythonscriptingbatchps1
cis547/cis547vm
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:28 commits, 2 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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