Harshvardhan Kalra
Senior Software Engineer at Zeta
Delhi, India
Summary
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Top SchoolHarshvardhan Kalra is a Senior Software Engineer based in Delhi with a decade of experience building user-facing systems and frontend features, currently at Zeta. An IIIT Delhi CSE graduate, he blends strong academic research roots—spanning cryptography, face-recognition contextual studies, and p2p anonymous sharing—with production engineering at scale. At Zeta he has progressed from Software Engineer to senior roles, contributing to product-facing features and platform reliability. He is also an active open-source contributor; notable work includes frontend enhancements to the popular Pokémon Showdown client where he improved battle UI and tooltip accuracy. Colleagues know him for a pragmatic approach that connects research-minded problem solving to shipping polished user experiences.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Computer Science at Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi
English, French, Hindi
Github Skills (9)
showdown10
sh10
uid10
mechanics10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
clientside10
fest3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
smogon/pokemon-showdown-client
Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
The client for Pokémon Showdown
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 13 PRs, 33 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Harshvardhan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Pokémon Showdown client, focusing on enhancing the user interface and battle mechanics. They added functionality to display item-boosted base powers for moves and refined the display of base power calculations. Moreover, the user updated the battle tooltips to reflect game mechanics accurately. These changes involved modifications to JavaScript files related to client-side battle logic and UI elements.
monshowdown
hvk3/Pokemon-Showdown
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:37 pushes in 21 days
mongamebattlesimulationsimulator
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