Harshit Khandelwal is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems and mobile apps from India. He has led engineering efforts at Safe Security—designing high-throughput data pipelines, event-driven microservices in Go, and AI-driven automation that reduced manual vendor assessments—before joining Varonis. Comfortable across backend, cloud and Android clients, he’s an active open-source contributor (notably to FOSSASIA projects like SUSI.AI and Open Event) with a history in GSoC and winning CODEHEAT. Harshit pairs hands-on implementation (Kafka, Snowflake, Iceberg, PostgreSQL, ECS/Fargate) with pragmatic test coverage and performance-first practices, and he unexpectedly brings a mechanical engineering background to his systems-thinking approach.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Mechanical Engineering at The LNM Institute of Information Technology
Open Event Attendee Android General App https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/blob/apk/open-event-dev-app-playStore-debug.apk
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Contributions:11 reviews, 173 commits, 236 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Harshit primarily contributed to the Android application's frontend and backend, including implementing user login features, and ensuring the correct handling of tickets and user data. They implemented key features such as auto-login, and handling of user information in the Edit Profile screen. They have made multiple UI/UX improvements to enhance the user experience, addressing issues like hiding the soft keyboard when specific buttons are pressed and fixing navigation issues.
Contributions:9 commits, 10 PRs, 131 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Harshit primarily contributed to the SUSI.AI Android application, focusing on enhancing user experience and fixing bugs. Their commits addressed issues like hiding the soft keyboard after authentication and when closing the search bar. They also refactored code by removing null assertions and replacing them with safe calls, and also handled menu item visibility. Their work involved changes across multiple Kotlin files, specifically focusing on UI and user interaction aspects of the app.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.