Harshal Choudhary

CTO

San Francisco, California, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable distributed systems.
Proficient in AWS and Real-Time Bidding technologies.
Strong background in software engineering management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in AdTech and Cloud Services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)Distributed SystemsC#Software Defined NetworkingTransact-sql (t-sql)Cuda

Other Skills

.NET FrameworkAlgorithm DesignAlgorithmsAmazon AthenaApache AirflowAzure KustoCC++CassandraElasticsearchEvent ManagementJavaKubernetesPeople ManagementPython

About

Passionate about bringing technological innovation to solve real world problems. Experienced in building micro services and designing scalable, highly available distributed systems.

Experience

Apple

Ads Platform Engineering

Nov 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

Building Ad Exchange and scaling ads offerings in Apple ecosystem.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Real-Time Bidding (RTB)Distributed SystemsKubernetesCassandraElasticsearch+3

Microsoft

4 roles

Sr. Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2020 – Nov 2021 · 11 mos

▌ Azure Core, Bandwidth Broker (SWAN)
Engineering manager and lead for bandwidth broker services and its data pipelines.

C++C#Distributed Systems

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Aug 2016 – Dec 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos

▌ Azure Core, Bandwidth Broker (SWAN)
Building services for Bandwidth Broker— a software-driven Network Quality of Service (QoS) and congestion control system for Microsoft backbone network, deployed geographically in a distributed environment and serving millions of clients across the globe.

C#C++Distributed SystemsSoftware Defined Networking

Software Engineer II

Jul 2014 – Jul 2016 · 2 yrs

▌ Azure CI/CD
Implemented snapshot and historical trend reporting features for Azure CI/CD Pipeline with perf optimizations to scale to the huge volumes of results generated in each build.

Transact-SQL (T-SQL)REST APIs

Software Engineer

Jun 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 1 mo

▌ Windows OS Group | Systems Programming
Worked on Remote File Systems drivers on Windows OS particularly focusing on the server-side features and redirector for Microsoft implementation of the RFS protocols:
Redesigned and shipped the iSCSI target 3.3 because of a major security flaw in the service which resulted in remote DDoS attacks on iSCSI server as a result of a sustained flood of specially crafted TCP packets to the iSCSI server.
Worked on enhancements for NFS v2 and v4 windows drivers on multiple versions of windows server and client OS like longhorn (vista), Windows 7 and Windows 8. Shipped several security updates for the NFS, DFS and WebDav drivers for Windows OS.

National institute of advanced studies

Research Intern

Nov 2009 – Jan 2010 · 2 mos · IISc Campus, Bangalore.

High Performance GPU-accelerated computing on CUDA in C : Worked on the CUDA extension of C (NVIDIA's parallel processing architecture) for a 240-core GPU for conversion of images between square and hexagonal pixel arrays needed for the image analysis.
Incorporated a Mathematical Website with interactive Java Applets.

CUDAC++