Harshit Kaushik
Founder at Nykaa.
Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Top SchoolHarshit Kaushik is a founder and seasoned software engineer with nine years of experience building low-latency, production-grade systems and ML-driven products. He architected the Recommendation microservice for Nykaa with single-digit microsecond latency and led engineering efforts at Thanks.com (O.C. Tanner), demonstrating strength in scaling legacy Java stacks and reviving brittle front-end code. Harshit has founded multiple startups (Ideative, KyuriousNinja, Shabdcast, Dhvana) and delivered ML and Open Banking projects at Fintify, blending product curiosity with hands-on implementation across backend, frontend, and ML tooling. He pairs pragmatic engineering—building everything from OpenCV-based intruder detection to CI-backed ML pipelines—with an investor’s interest in markets and automated personal trading systems. Based in Gurugram, he combines entrepreneurial grit with deep operational experience in Spring, Dropwizard, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow and production ML workflows.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical UniversityIntermediate Diploma, Intermediate Diploma at Nehru World School
English, Hindi, Gujarati
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Github Skills (15)
cli-application9
command-line7
cli7
nodejs7
documentation6
cli-app5
shell5
open-source5
history5
bash4
rust4
zsh3
ecosystem2
kubernetes2
database1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HarshitKaushik/ideative-project
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:33 commits, 17 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 months
kubernetesecosystemopen-source-projectidea
HarshitKaushik/ideative-theme
Aug 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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