Harshit Kumar
Senior Member Of Technical Staff at The D. E. Shaw Group
Hyderabad, Telangana, India
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Top SchoolHarshit Kumar is a Senior Member of Technical Staff with 8 years of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across backend and frontend stacks. He led a major monolith-to-microservices migration at DispatchTrack that cut deployment time by over 30% and delivered real-time driver tracking and advanced auto-routing improvements that materially boosted delivery accuracy and customer satisfaction. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, React, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Redis, Airflow and AWS, he also drove a MongoDB-to-MySQL migration that reduced costs by $40K/year and sped up queries by 35%. At D. E. Shaw he continues to apply this mix of systems thinking and hands-on engineering, combining strong performance and security practices honed earlier via search optimizations and OAuth integrations. A high-performer from IIT Ropar, he pairs rigorous academic chops with a knack for pragmatic product-facing features like photo/signature proof-of-delivery that measurably reduce disputes.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Intermediate, Science + Informatics Practices, 93.2%, Intermediate, Science + Informatics Practices, 93.2% at Delhi Public School GhaziabadB. Tech, 9.06 CGPA, B. Tech, 9.06 CGPA at Indian Institute of Technology, RoparClass 10th, 94.4%, Class 10th, 94.4% at Mount Carmel School Muradnagar
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (45)
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telegram-bot9
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clipboard-manager8
telegram8
sublime-text7
github-bot7
python7
client-library7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rising-stark/Competitive-Questions
Apr 2020 - Aug 2021
Contributions:345 commits, 216 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
rising-stark/coder
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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