Summary
Harsha Reddy is a Senior Lead Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building secure, developer-focused platforms and large-scale authentication/authorization systems. He has driven platform initiatives at Wayfair—standardizing OpenID Connect with a Keycloak SaaS, rolling out Open Policy Agent for policy enforcement, and cutting integration times from weeks to minutes—then brought that security and platform expertise to Klaviyo’s Customer and API AuthN/Z stack. Harsha blends hands-on engineering with team leadership, delivering high-availability services (99.99% uptimes) and measurable cost savings through optimization and standardization. He pairs a strong academic foundation (MS in Computer Science) with a practical history of shipping consumer-facing apps early in his career, reflecting both product sensibility and backend rigour. Notably, his work often focuses on making secure systems easier for developers to adopt, baking governance and auditability into platform workflows.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Bachelor’s Degree Information and Communication Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information and Communication Technology at Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology
English, Hindi, Telugu