Harshith Mente
Software Engineer Intern at Flagright
Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshith Mente is an Integrated M.Tech student at IIITM Gwalior and a pragmatic software engineer with ~3 years of experience building backend services, microservices, and integration tests for cloud-native systems. As a Goldman Sachs intern he redesigned a financial data workflow and built secure Spring Boot APIs that improved end-to-end efficiency by 30%, and he has continued to work on production-grade systems at Flagright. He contributed to CNCF Jaeger as an LFX mentee, integrating OpenTelemetry Kafka components and authoring end-to-end Kafka pipeline tests—work that strengthened Jaeger V2’s telemetry compatibility and reliability. Comfortable across C++, Java, Python, Go and cloud tooling (Kubernetes, Docker, AWS), he pairs competitive-programming problem solving (≈900 problems solved) with practical system design. Notably, his open-source contributions involved removing deprecated metrics dependencies and enabling legacy format support in a widely used distributed tracing platform, reflecting both attention to backward compatibility and test automation.
3 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Integrated Masters Information Technology, Integrated Masters Information Technology at ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management
Github Skills (14)
distributed-tracing10
kafka10
go10
tracer10
trace10
go-testing10
jaeger10
testing10
continuous-integration9
observability9
docker8
yaml8
dockers8
opentelemetry7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jaegertracing/jaeger
May 2024 - Oct 2024
CNCF Jaeger, a Distributed Tracing Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:28 reviews, 12 PRs, 40 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Harshith primarily contributed to the removal of deprecated metrics configurations within the Jaeger tracing platform. They modified the internal metrics factory to remove dependencies and updated related tests. Additionally, the user implemented end-to-end integration tests for Kafka, configuring collector and ingester components, and supporting legacy Jaeger formats. They also updated the integration test scripts and workflows.
distributedtracingjaegertracingobservabilitycncf
joeyyy09/truflow
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Contributions:1 review, 33 PRs, 26 pushes in 10 months
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