Harkirat Saluja

CEO

Pune, Maharashtra, India12 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Designed scalable notification platform handling 500K+ messages/month.
Built enterprise integrations driving multi-million ARR growth.
Mentored engineers and drove cross-team initiatives.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused SaaS Engineer with extensive experience in scalable systems and integrations.

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Skills

Core Skills

Backend SystemsCloud InfrastructureIntegrationsFull Stack DevelopmentTestingAutomation

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAgile facilitationAlgorithmsAmazon DynamodbAmazon SQSAmazon Web Services (AWS)Android app developmentAngularJSAnsibleBack-End Web DevelopmentBootstrapCCI/CDCI/CD workflowsCSS

About

I am a Senior Backend Engineer with 12+ years of experience designing and scaling SaaS platforms. My expertise lies in backend systems — notifications, integrations, distributed architectures, and cloud infrastructure — with a strong full-stack background that helps me collaborate seamlessly with frontend and product teams. Over the years, I have: 1. Designed a notification platform handling 500K+ messages/month (Clari). 2. Built enterprise integrations (Microsoft Teams, Slack, Salesforce) driving multi-million ARR growth. 3. Modernized cloud infrastructure to improve latency, reliability, and compliance. 4. Improved uptime by 20% via event-driven architecture at Rattle. 5. Scaled 15+ backend microservices and automated CI/CD pipelines at Wealthy. Beyond coding, I mentor engineers, drive cross-team initiatives, and focus on building reliable, observable, and scalable systems that align with business goals. Currently, I am deepening my backend expertise (system design, distributed systems) and open to Senior Backend or Staff Engineer roles where I can own large-scale systems and help teams grow.

Experience

12 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 9 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 5 mos

Current Experience

Self-employed

Consulting & Freelance Projects

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

Delivered backend reliability and monitoring solutions (Sentry, structured logging) to reduce MTTR for production systems.
Built test automation and CI/CD workflows (Playwright, linting, quality gates), improving release confidence.
Advised startups on scalable architecture patterns, event-driven design, and SLA compliance.

Sentrystructured loggingtest automationCI/CD workflowsPlaywrightlinting+6

Clari

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru · Hybrid

Designed and implemented scalable Notification Platform using idempotency + retry patterns, ensuring reliable delivery of 500K+ monthly messages.
Built Microsoft Teams integration from scratch, contributing to $10M+ enterprise expansion.
Scaled Clari Copilot desktop app by improving reliability, testing, and monitoring for 200+ customers.
Modernized cloud infrastructure (latency, compliance, reliability) to meet enterprise SLAs.
Acted as Agile facilitator for 2 squads, improving velocity and delivery consistency

Notification Platformidempotencyretry patternsMicrosoft Teams integrationcloud infrastructureAgile facilitation+2

Rattle

Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bangalore Urban

First India engineering hire; built core SaaS backend systems from scratch.
Delivered 5+ integrations (Slack, Teams, Salesforce), driving $300K+ ARR.
Designed event-driven systems improving uptime by 20% and debugging efficiency.
Collaborated with US teams to align backend delivery with global expansion.

SaaS backend systemsintegrationsevent-driven systemsBackend SystemsIntegrations

Wealthy

Senior Full Stack Engineer

Feb 2016 – Jul 2021 · 5 yrs 5 mos · Bangalore

Scaled backend microservices (15+) and automated CI/CD, increasing release frequency and stability.
Owned delivery of 20+ backend features, driving a 30x increase in ARR.
Led engineering team growth from 3 → 38; mentored 7 engineers.
Built Android app from scratch, scaling to 1M+ installs with optimized performance.

backend microservicesCI/CDAndroid app developmentBackend SystemsFull Stack Development

Citrix

Software Development Engineer in Test 2

Jul 2013 – Jan 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Built automation frameworks improving test coverage from 50% → 95%.
Developed Dev-Sanity tool in Perl, reducing build verification from 5 hrs → 45 mins.
Led team of 4 to scale automation for NetScaler context switching.

automation frameworksDev-Sanity toolNetScaler context switchingTestingAutomation