Harshit Kumar
Machine Learning Engineer
Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshit Kumar is a full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on product-facing work and cross-functional collaboration, currently improving business messaging across Meta’s family of apps. He excels at joining or bootstrapping teams, shaping org strategy and processes, and delivering user-centered improvements that balance product and engineering trade-offs. Comfortable diving into any stack or codebase, Harshit prioritizes where he can have maximum impact and enjoys opportunities to influence both technical direction and team culture. His background includes internships and research roles that reflect strong academic roots from UIUC, where he studied CS and linguistics—fueling an ongoing interest in NLP and machine learning. Based in California, he brings the discipline of large-scale platform engineering together with a product mindset and a knack for growing effective cross-functional teams. Notably, he pairs hands-on coding with people-first leadership, making him effective at translating user problems into scalable technical solutions.
11 years of coding experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Hindi, English
Github Skills (2)
react5
javascript4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
harshk360/harshk360.github.io
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
harshk360/Codeforces
Jul 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 4 days
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