Harshita Kanal
Senior Software Engineer at HackerRank
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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Top SchoolHarshita Kanal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Mumbai with six years of hands-on experience building responsive, user-focused front-ends and full-stack features, currently shipping production code at HackerRank. She has progressed internally from intern to senior engineer, routinely working with React, Vue, JavaScript and modern UI toolchains to improve product quality and test coverage. An active open-source contributor and mentor, she has improved UX and responsiveness in notable community projects like Layer5 and the popular awesome-portfolio-websites repo, and has mentored contributors at Material-UI and vGHC. Her background includes cloud-native work with Buildpacks and practical SaaS front-end engineering using Nuxt, Tailwind and GCP/AWS, reflecting comfort across both product and infrastructure-adjacent domains. Colleagues know her for thoughtful UI polish—animations, navbar behaviors and mobile-first layouts—that lift perceived product quality beyond obvious feature work. She combines a strong mentoring streak with a penchant for turning design wireframes into reusable, testable components.
6 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at University of MumbaiRamnarain Ruia College - Mumbai
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Github Skills (16)
html10
gatsbyjs10
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
io9
pip6
miniconda6
anaconda6
python6
discord-js6
cloud-native5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
layer5io/layer5
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Layer5, expect more from your infrastructure
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 23 commits, 11 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Harshita primarily focused on front-end development within the Layer5 repository. Their contributions included removing code duplication in the banner section, adding and modifying components related to project displays, and implementing a new social component. These changes were focused on refining the user interface and updating the about page's layout and content.
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smaranjitghose/awesome-portfolio-websites
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Harshita primarily focused on improving the user interface and responsiveness of the provided portfolio website. Their contributions include enhancing the mobile view of the skills page by adjusting layout and element sizing, adding navbar transitions and animations for a smoother user experience, and modifying the navbar to be fullscreen on mobile devices. They also made some changes to the CSS, HTML, and Javascript files to support their front-end focused changes.
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