Harshal Priyadarshi is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across Microsoft, Cisco, Deliveroo, Angel One and startups, currently shaping AI products at Outlier. He blends deep engineering chops—ML pipeline and search feature work at Microsoft and large-data ingestion at Cisco—with hands-on product delivery, having led a successful monolith-to-microservices migration at Deliveroo. A founder and operator (Knittle, Cumin AI) who has managed teams and run services at 99.9% availability, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with enterprise rigor. His recent work includes data-centric contributions to LLM training and open-source research into "superintelligence" foundations, reflecting a strong interest in the intersection of AI research and reliable systems. Based in Hyderabad, he holds an MS in Computer Science from UT Austin and a BTech from IIT Roorkee, combining top-tier academic pedigree with broad industry impact.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee
AISSCE (Grade 12) STEM, AISSCE (Grade 12) STEM at Delhi Public School
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