Harshit Kumar
Software Development Engineer 2 at Amazon
Greater Bengaluru Area India
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshit Kumar is a results-driven Software Development Engineer with 9 years of experience specializing in fintech, payments, and compliance, currently driving critical systems at Amazon from Bengaluru. He has architected enterprise-grade compliance automation and high-throughput microservices that process millions of transactions with 99.9%+ uptime, cutting manual validation and deployment times dramatically. A pragmatic technical leader, Harshit has led cross-functional initiatives across multiple teams, instituted CI/CD and testing frameworks adopted org-wide, and reduced incident response time through automated monitoring and runbooks. He pairs hands-on engineering—evident from contributions to the macOS Touch Bar project Pock and research work on handwritten line segmentation—with strong stakeholder management and executive-level communication. Beyond production systems, he builds productivity tooling (custom Git drivers, hooks) and test infrastructure that materially speed development cycles. Colleagues know him for mentoring engineers to promotions and for blending disciplined process improvements with creative, user-focused fixes.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Engineering at Maharaja Surajmal Institute Of Technology
Github Skills (8)
swift10
macos10
debug10
widgets10
cocoa9
objective-c8
obj8
ui-design8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pock/pock
Jul 2019 - Jul 2019
Widgets manager for MacBook Touch Bar
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Harshit primarily contributed to the Pock project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to the macOS Touch Bar widgets manager. Their work included adding functionality for time format preferences, fixing a bug in time updates, and resolving issues with the Control Center widget's long-tap behavior and icon display. These changes involved modifications to the app's preferences, clock display, and Control Center components, indicating a focus on improving user experience and addressing functional issues.
statusbardockmacbooktouchcontrol-strip
lcukerd/StuffList
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:37 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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