Harsimar Parihar
Senior Software Engineer at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolHarsimar Parihar is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient mobile and backend systems, currently at Uber in Amsterdam. He combines a strong foundation in electronics from NIT Surat with hands-on expertise in Android development, payments and supply-chain domains across Hotstar, Myntra and Uber. A proactive contributor to FOSSASIA’s flagship Open Event Android project, he has driven UI improvements, refactoring to JSONAPI types, and features like favorites and ticket selection that improved real-world user flows. He has a track record of delivering measurable impact—automating customer-care task pipelines at Myntra that saved over 120 man-days per year—and repeatedly fixes hard production issues such as memory leaks and data-binding bugs. Comfortable across native mobile, backend services and ML-infused mobile work, he blends product-minded engineering with open-source collaboration. Colleagues know him for shipping practical, user-focused solutions and mentoring emerging developers in community-driven projects.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Surat
English, Hindi, Punjabi
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Github Skills (25)
kotlin10
mobile-development10
android-sdk10
ui-design10
android-recyclerview10
android-development10
java10
mobile-application10
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
android-ui10
recyclerview10
retrofit9
databinding8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
fossasia/open-event-attendee-android
May 2018 - Oct 2018
Open Event Attendee Android General App https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/blob/apk/open-event-dev-app-playStore-debug.apk
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:67 commits, 101 PRs, 22 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Harsimar primarily contributed to the development of the Android application, focusing on various UI and functional improvements. They refactored the event model to align with a JSONAPI type, ensuring data consistency. Further contributions included implementing new features, like the favorites and ticket quantity selection, along with UI enhancements to improve the user experience within the event and search fragments. Bug fixes were also implemented, such as showing the correct number of tickets in the order under the user fragment.
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fossasia/open-event-droidgen
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Open Event Android App Generator https://github.com/fossasia/open-event-android/raw/apk/sample-apk-fossasia17-development.apk
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:20 commits, 29 PRs, 177 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Harsimar primarily contributed to bug fixes and feature enhancements within the Open Event Android application. Their work includes removing HTML tags to integrate calendar information, resolving refresh and retry issues in the feed, fixing memory leaks and data binding issues in multiple fragments, and adding view models for managing user profile and edit profile activities. The user also added support for discount codes and implemented functionalities for displaying feedbacks. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and application stability.
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