Harsh Thakur
Founding Engineer at Performing Creatives
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHarsh Thakur is a founding engineer and former Microsoft software engineer with around 7 years of experience building scalable, modular systems for real-time collaboration across Microsoft 365. At Microsoft he re-architected Loop’s table component into clean DataModel/ViewModel/View layers, designed an extensible typed-column system, and shipped a Copilot-powered natural-language-to-table feature that started as a hackathon prototype. He brings strong backend and DevOps chops—contributing to the popular Fission serverless project by fixing builds, migrating KEDA triggers, and improving websocket and metrics tooling. An IIT Kanpur graduate, he thrives at the intersection of systems design and user-centric product thinking and has a knack for turning experimental ideas into production features. Outside work he reads widely, watches films, and enjoys long drives.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurHigh School, High School at DAV Public School, B.S.E.B. Colony, Patna
Github Skills (14)
functions-as-a-service10
kubernetes10
serverless10
go10
devops10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
container9
docker9
api8
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
apim8
api-design8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
fission/fission
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
Fast and Simple Serverless Functions for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:91 reviews, 25 commits, 31 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Harsh primarily contributed to the Fission serverless functions project by fixing build-related issues and migrating to Keda 2.0 for message queue triggers. Their work involved modifying code related to package builds, rate limits, and pod specifications, indicating backend and debugging efforts. Additionally, they implemented enhancements for the websocket integration and added metrics for the pod reaper, showing DevOps and performance monitoring expertise.
containersfunctionsdevopsfissionserverless
RealHarshThakur/kubefixtures
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
KubeFixtures is a CLI tool/library to help you load fixtures(status included) into your Kubernetes cluster.
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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