Harshit Beri

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States15 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven track record in AWS and distributed systems.
  • Led high-impact projects at Amazon and Zillow.
  • Expert in architecting scalable and reliable systems.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing expert with a strong focus on scalable systems and operational excellence.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsDistributed SystemsOperational ExcellenceSoftware DevelopmentCloud ComputingWeb Development

Other Skills

API DevelopmentAPIsAd-Building ToolAgile MethodologiesAjaxAlgorithmsCC++CSSCloudWatch MetricsComputer ScienceCore JavaCross-functional Team LeadershipData PlaneData Structures

About

Compassionate technical leader and critical thinker with a proven track record of effective design and development of quality software and full life cycle of product delivery. Specialties: AWS, Distributed Systems, Root Cause Analysis, Operational Excellence, Observability, Technical Leadership, Hiring and Mentoring. Interests: Architecting and implementing highly available, scalable and reliable systems from concept to reality in operationally and cost sensitive way with a focus to serve customers and minimize toil using knowledge of Microservices, Serverless, CQRS, Event Sourcing, Streaming and Change Data Capture (CDC) architectural patterns.

Experience

Zillow

2 roles

Principal Software Development Engineer

Promoted

Feb 2022Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

Senior Software Development Engineer

Jun 2019Feb 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Amazon web services

2 roles

Software Development Engineer, AWS Elastic Load Balancing

Apr 2017May 2019 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Seattle Area

  • ELB Data Plane Platform team, which manages Data Plane for 2 types
  • of Load Balancers:
  • Application Load Balancer: Operates at request level (Layer-7) (https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/application-load-balancer/).
  • Classic: Operates at both request level (Layer-7) and connection level (Layer-4) (https://aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/classic-load-balancer/).
  • These 2 load balancers host some of the most popular domains on internet for more than 100k+ customers in 25+ AWS regions and operate one of the biggest Data Plane fleet on AWS.
  • Some of the noteworthy projects that I led / contributed-to in this team: Access Logs delivery from from load balancer nodes to S3, load balancer Health Checks, billing and CloudWatch metrics.
  • Helped launch several new regions for ELB and led cross-org automation efforts to reduce new region build effort.
AWSDistributed SystemsCloud ComputingData PlaneHealth ChecksCloudWatch Metrics

Software Development Engineer, AWS WorkSpaces

Jan 2015Apr 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Greater Seattle Area

  • AWS WorkSpaces (https://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/) provides a fully managed, secure and reliable Virtual Desktop on AWS
  • Cloud. It is used by 10k+ enterprises to provide virtual desktops for varied worker types,
  • especially hybrid and remote workers.
  • Worked on projects on both Control Plane and Data Plane. Also led several successful
  • initiatives to improve operational stability and provided oversight on improving
  • deployment processes by building metrics pipelines and operational dashboards
  • Some of the projects that I worked on in this team include: WorkSpaces Health
  • Checks, CloudWatch Metrics (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/cloudwatch-metrics.html) and Tagging (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/latest/adminguide/tag-workspaces-resources.html).
AWSOperational StabilityMetrics PipelinesCloudWatch MetricsOperational Excellence

Amazon

Software Development Engineer, Amazon Affiliates

May 2012Jan 2015 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Designed and developed several high scale low latency systems to enable content
  • creators, publishers and bloggers monetize their website traffic by featuring Amazon
  • products on their sites and social media.
  • Amazon affiliate program (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/) is one of the largest programs in the world with over 1MM
  • affiliates. These affiliates drive 10s of billions of dollars in sales for Amazon world-wide.
  • Worked on different parts of Amazon’s affiliate infrastructure - Link/Ad-building, Link/Adserving,
  • Payments and Telemetry.
  • Architected and implemented “Amazon Publisher Studio” - A new Ad-Building Tool to
  • allow website owners to create In-image ads on their websites. It was used by more than 25k affiliates in the first year of its launch and brought in millions of dollars in sales. Also worked with my team to file this product as a patent (https://patents.google.com/patent/US20140129959).
High Scale SystemsLow Latency SystemsAd-Building ToolTelemetrySoftware DevelopmentCloud Computing

Yahoo!

Software Development Engineer, Yahoo

Jul 2011May 2012 · 10 mos · Bangalore, India

  • Worked at Yahoo Advertising Platform Group on a Greenfield product which allows
  • advertisers to manage Display Ads across multiple advertising channels. Implemented
  • APIs and front-end using Java, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
APIsJavaJavaScriptHTMLCSSSoftware Development+1

International institute of information technology

Research Assistant

Jan 2011May 2011 · 4 mos · Greater Hyderabad Area

  • Worked as a Research Assistant for professor Jayanthi Sivaswamy (Professor & Dean at IIIT) to help build Virtual Labs for Digital Image processing.
  • Implemented a diverse set of digital image processing experiments for the Virtual Lab (https://cse19-iiith.vlabs.ac.in/).
Digital Image Processing

Ibm

Software Development Intern

May 2010Jul 2010 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Built kernel extension for IMB’s AIX operating systems to enable memory sharing
  • between different Workload Partitions (WPARs) by adding interfaces for SHM system commands
  • to allow memory sharing across WPARs.
Kernel ExtensionMemory Sharing

Education

International Institute of Information Technology

Bachelor of Technology (Honors in Image Processing) — Computer Science and Engineering

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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