Harsha Shekar

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15 years of experience in software development
Expertise in back-end technologies and engineering management
Proven track record in scaling enterprise solutions

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Engineering Manager with extensive experience in Fintech and SaaS.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementEngineering LeadershipLeadership

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache KafkaCC++Coaching & MentoringCore JavaData StructuresDesign PatternsJIRAJenkinsMachine LearningMongoDBPostgreSQLPython (Programming Language)Redis

About

MS in Software Systems from BITS, Pilani with an experience of 15 years in software development, having a profound interest towards advancements in back-end technologies that enable platforms deliver enriching experiences

Experience

Atlassian

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

Solving the problems of Performance @ Scale @ Cost for Atlassian!

Engineering ManagementEngineering Leadership

Engineering Manager

Oct 2021 – Nov 2023 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Leading teams to solve the scale problems with Jira Search which would enable our enterprise customers to migrate to cloud.

Plato

Coach/Mentor

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 7 mos · Remote

Coaching/Mentoring newly minted and experienced EMs on the Plato platform by engaging with them on various leadership topics and dealing with scenarios they are currently facing in terms of people, processes, product and tech.

LeadershipCoaching & Mentoring

Miq digital india

Engineering Manager

Dec 2019 – Oct 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Led 2 teams comprising of 12 devs, 1 TL, 1 SDET in total responsible for building products catering to ad campaign management by building automations for data onboarding and reporting helping traders increase their throughput by 2-3x
2. Handled people management responsibilities ranging across hiring, coaching, career development and performance management

Edelweiss broking ltd.

2 roles

Chief Manager

Apr 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Managing a team of 12, responsible for building back-end services for all Edelweiss platforms
2. End to end delivery handling ranging from requirement gathering to deployment on production systems
3. Development of in-house generic scalable services for trading and market data like Alert Management System, custom tools for charting, subscription services using Spring Boot, Kafka, MongoDB, Redis

Senior Manager

Feb 2016 – Apr 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Revamped the back-end stack with the help of microservices using Spring Boot to support scaling levels of 10-15x
2. Development of streaming stack in C++ for tick by tick stock market data on the platforms
3. Setup CI/CD pipeline with Jenkins/Bamboo reducing the deployment time from 2 hours to 10 mins across projects
4. Implemented the back-end stack for Stock Charts which is one of the most used features in the industry today

Samsung research india bangalore

Technical Lead

Mar 2010 – Feb 2016 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

1. Development and commercialization of secure media framework on Android for seamless playback of DRM content
2. Implemented the framework for Smartview feature with caching on Android to seamlessly playback - commercialized on Galaxy S6
3. Development of DRM framework on Tizen platform with Trustzone implementation
4. Integration and development of Microsoft's Playready DRM with Tizen platform
5. Significant contributions in some of the POC projects involving S-Voice, Gear VR to develop a Jarvis kind social bot