Oct 2022 – Nov 2025 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Founding Product Manager for Harness Internal Developer Portal (IDP), a platform for streamlining developer workflows. Grew IDP from 0 to millions in ARR, establishing it as a core pillar of Harness’ developer experience suite and one of the fastest growing Harness product.
• Launched IDP beta in 6 months, securing first paid customer and $100K ARR within 9 months.
• Drove explosive growth: $0 → $6.5M ARR and 50+ paid enterprise customers, consistently exceeding all quarterly targets.
• Spearheaded 0→1 product strategy, spotting market gaps, validating via early adopter design partnerships, and owning full lifecycle from MVP definition and pricing to GTM and scaling.
• Leveraged deep Backstage expertise as former core engineer at Spotify to architect IDP's foundation; collaborated hands-on with engineering via pair programming, code reviews, and design sessions.
• Built robust customer feedback loops that prioritized roadmap features, fueling differentiation and adoption in the competitive IDP landscape.
• Served as inaugural Sales and Implementation Engineer, hands-on guiding pre-sales integrations and post-sales adoption before scaling to dedicated teams.
• Partnered with GMs/Executives and CEO on high-level strategy, including key integrations, positioning, and thought leadership through webinars and content that positioned Harness as an IDP innovator.

Aug 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Stockholm, Sweden · On-site

• Backstage core team at Spotify. https://github.com/backstage/backstage
• Top contributor and part of the reviewers group. https://github.com/backstage/backstage/blob/master/OWNERS.md#reviewers
• Focus on Catalog, Plugins, Scaffolder, TechDocs and Search.
• Project got adopted by 1000s of companies e.g. Netflix, Expedia, American Airlines, Splunk, etc.
• Connected with 500+ companies, supported their adoption with product strategy and engineering approaches.
• Organizer of Backstage Community Sessions. backstage.io/community
• Talks and demos in various conferences and meetups.
• Improved the onboarding and adoption experience of Backstage, by contributing to docs, producing technical content, livestreams and so on. See backstage.spotify.com/learn
• Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals, created at Spotify, donated to CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation).

Sep 2019 – Aug 2020 · 11 mos · Tokyo, Japan

• Primary maintainer of User Verification features (Email, Government ID, KYC) in the app. Improved stability of API which affected 10% of the users by fixing infrastructure problems (API design issues, Race condition, gRPC connection handling).
• Launched new features in internal Admin Tool, used for compliance, moderation and customer support.
• Worked on laying the foundations of the system responsible for user data laws support (CCPA, COPPA).
• Mostly used skills: Golang, Javascript, PHP, React Native, Kubernetes and Docker.
• Mercari US is a subsidiary of Japan’s first unicorn company Mercari.

May 2018 – Aug 2018 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Twitter Open Source Program Office.
• Created Open Source Metrics reporting system for all the Twitter OSS projects[1].
• Worked on automating Open Source review process for internal projects.
• Built the back-end of the new opensource.twitter.com[2].
• Investigated Bi-directional code flow of Twitter Open Source projects and the internal mono-repo.
• Skills: Python, Javascript, Continuous Integration, VCS
• [1] https://opensource.twitter.com/metrics
• [2] https://opensource.twitter.com

May 2016 – Aug 2016 · 3 mos · Remote

• The project was to implement a single, comprehensive library for Time Series analysis with a major focus on the analysis of data received from accreting systems such as black holes and neutron stars.
• Organization - Stingray, Timelab Technologies Ltd.
• Project - Library of Time Series Methods
• Mentor - Daniela Huppenkothen, Matteo Bachetti
• Report - http://blog.orkohunter.net/google-summer-of-code-2016-report-stingray

May 2015 – Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Remote

• I was accepted as a student in Google Summer of Code 2015 with Python Software Foundation. I worked with NetworkX which is a Python library for Graph Theory and Complex Networks. I wrote a library for Graph partitioning, an extension of NetworkX with over 13 million downloads per month. Also, I designed the add-on system for NetworkX extensions.
• GSoC Proposal - https://github.com/networkx/networkx/wiki/GSoC-2015-Application-Himanshu-Mishra-:-Add-On-System-for-Networkx