Harsh A.

Co-Founder

Faridabad, Haryana, India5 yrs 10 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Founder of AI-powered recruiting platform TechKareer.
Built AI SaaS that attracted major VC interest.
ZFellow with less than 1% acceptance rate.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI-focused entrepreneur with strong software engineering expertise.

Contact

+919131715849 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Next.jsAwsWebsocketTwilioPythonSolidityNode.jsReactScala

Other Skills

AWS EMRAmazon ECSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Apache SparkC (Programming Language)C#C++DockerGame DevelopmentGoCDJavaScriptKritaKubernetesPHPPython (Programming Language)

About

Dropped out of college. Got into a $10B tech company (Avalara) as an SDE when I was just 18. Spent 2 years in corporate and another 2 working for US startups remotely. Now, full-time into entrepreneurship again building techkareer.com. Angel Investor in Ballers (ballerslife.co) and an US based startup. Achievements: - I'm a ZFellow (<1% acceptance rate) - Founder of TechKareer, an AI-powered recruiting platform that has helped many top Indian and Abroad startups (like BanterAI.business, Rifflix.com, and CodeMate.ai) hire great tech talent - Built an AI SaaS called getdevkit.com which got me meetings with a16z, Sequoia, and Nexus Tech Ventures. Received an acquisition offer from an Australian company. - Build the v2 of CarynAI, the AI companion app that received worldwide attention from top TV channels and publications

Experience

Techkareer

Founder

Apr 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos

Helping companies and talent find their best match. Helped 20+ founders (Stanford, IIT, LSB, UCB etc. grads) build their teams. Some of our recent clients:
Rifflix: SF based AI Animation startup by a Stanford grad
BanterAI: NYC based AI Voice Agents startup by a UC Berkeley grad
CodeMate: India based AI DevTools startup backed by stellar VCs and angels

Banterai

Lead Software Engineer

Jun 2023 – Apr 2024 · 10 mos · Remote

Worked on low-latency AI voice call experiences for web and phone with websockets and Twilio
Setup efficient RAG system to provide bots access to long-form content and real-time information
Built internal tools to fine-tune LLMs in seconds

WebSocketTwilio

Dappcamp

Software Engineer

Mar 2022 – Jan 2023 · 10 mos · Remote

Early-stage Web3 EdTech Startup
Built a custom course platform to migrate from a revenue-sharing platform resulting in savings of over $25K
Built an internal hiring platform to connect Web3 companies with developers
Scraped and analyzed data for market research

Python (Programming Language)SolidityNext.jsAmazon ECSPython

Devkit

Founder

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 2 mos

Bundled and AI-powered tools to help developers save 10s of hours every week.
$10K revenue, 12.5K+ signups. $10K raised from ZFellows.
Pitched to partners at a16z, Sequoia, Nexus Tech Ventures, Techstars, etc. on 1-1 virtual calls

Next.jsAmazon Web Services (AWS)VercelAWS

Avalara

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

Migrated multi-node EC2 based ElasticSearch 6 cluster to EKS based ElasticSearch 7 cluster. The cluster stored more than 500M records.
Worked on data pipelines built with Spark and Scalding processing terabytes of data every month
Built a low-code tool with Go and React to allow users to scrape websites with an intuitive user interface. It is being used extensively across multiple teams.
Built a Scala REST API to transform cross border taxes and rates data for downstream systems.

Node.jsReact.jsReactjsTemporalApache SparkGoCD+5

Software Engineer Intern

Mar 2020 – Jun 2020 · 3 mos

Went through a 3 months bootcamp covering Scala, data processing with Akka Streams, Spark, Docker, and Kubernetes. I implemented Okta Authentication for one of our internal apps.
Maintained internal and open-source Scala projects.
Contributed to managing our monthly data processing cycle.

Node.jsDockerKubernetesApache SparkJavaScriptScala