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Harsh Agrawal

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India11 yrs 4 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led scaling efforts for 15M concurrent users.
  • Recognized as one of India's 100 Great People Managers.
  • Expert in building high-performing engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Gaming expert with a strong focus on engineering management and technical leadership.

Contact

harsh5692@gmail.comLinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Technical LeadershipCloud ComputingEngineering ManagementSoftware DevelopmentMicroservicesFull Stack Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)AngularJSArchitectureCC++CassandraComputer ScienceComputer SecurityDatabasesDistributed SystemsElasticSearchJavaJavaScriptLinux

About

With over a decade of experience in software engineering, I have a proven track record of delivering innovative and impactful solutions, driving ventures from product-market fit to scaling growth-stage companies by 10x. As a leader, I focus on fostering innovation, building sustainable systems, and developing tech talent. I leverage my technical expertise, strategic mindset, and strong management skills to drive business growth. My strengths include meticulous project planning, designing robust software architectures, effective decision-making, stakeholder management, and nurturing teams to foster a culture of continuous improvement. Currently, as CTO in Residence at Elevation Capital, I work closely with our portfolio founders and tech/product leaders on a wide range of challenges, including creating hiring strategies and processes, assisting with tech/product roadmaps, and mentoring mid-level team members to build strong, high-performing teams. I also collaborate with engineering teams of various sizes to enhance engineering excellence, refine organizational structures, improve performance evaluation frameworks, and establish effective processes for technical audits. Previously, as a Director of Engineering at Dream11, I led the optimization and scaling efforts to support 15M concurrent users on the home page, designed sharding mechanisms to reduce impact radius and disaster recovery time, and managed engineering teams to build scratch-to-scale projects. I was recognized as one of India's 100 Great People Managers in 2021, covered in Forbes India Jan 2022 Edition.

Experience

11 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
4 yrs 7 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 1 mo
Current Experience

Elevation capital

CTO in Residence

May 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

  • My role here is three parts:
  • One, work on tech enablement of the fund.
  • Two, work closely with the portfolio companies on a wide range of problems like coaching mid-level tech management, crafting robust tech architectures, streamlining product strategies, and building high-performing teams.
  • Three, build a thriving community of exceptional tech/product leaders and builders, to leverage the power of collaborative learning.
Technical LeadershipTeam ManagementCloud ComputingAgile Methodologies

Dream11

3 roles

Director of Engineering

Promoted

Jul 2022 – Apr 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Leading optimizations and scaling efforts to support 15M concurrency on the home page.
  • Designed sharding mechanisms to reduce impact radius by 90% in case of system failures and increased recovery time by 50%.
  • Managed engineering teams sized from 25 to 50 to build scratch-to-scale projects, like NFT-based cricket fantasy and multi-match fantasy used by 750k to 5M users.
  • Built strong teams through selective recruitment and post-hire mentorship of EMs and devs.
  • Crafted effective processes for hiring, product development, security reviews, incident reviews, talent principles reviews, on-call responsibilities, and match-day watch command.
  • Experience in stakeholder management, conflict resolution, product prioritization, regulatory compliance, bandwidth allocation, tech-debt management, and infra-cost optimizations.
ScrumDatabasesTeam CollaborationWeb ApplicationsCassandraTeam Management+13

Software Developer III

Promoted

Jul 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Led the deprecation and migration of the internal tooling system from monolith to microservices architecture, spanning 50+ microservices.
  • Redesigned internal CRM and management software to decrease manual error by 95%, and reduced on-call issues by 90% for the KYC team, risk team, and customer success team.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams such as product, design, analytics, and security teams to create internal tools and workflow automation.
ScrumDatabasesTeam CollaborationWeb ApplicationsCassandraTeam Management+12

Software Developer II

Oct 2017 – Jul 2020 · 2 yrs 9 mos

  • Founding engineer of the Fancode backend team responsible for building the product from scratch along with its content management platform.
  • Architected and implemented partner auth framework, integrating with 20+ partners.
  • Won Hackathon 2018, built contest creation automation, saving 90% manual bandwidth.
ScrumDatabasesTeam CollaborationWeb ApplicationsCassandraRequirements Analysis+9

Aasaanjobs.com

Full Stack Developer

Jan 2015 – Oct 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Mumbai Metropolitan Region

  • Designed and developed highly scalable services.
  • Built the end-to-end application tracking system, notification service, jobs management system and candidate onboarding system.
  • Worked with multiple stakeholders, identified their pain points, and solved for them by building tools to automate multiple manual tasks.
ScrumDatabasesTeam CollaborationWeb ApplicationsMean StackTeam Management+10

11techsquare

Application Lead

Sep 2014 – Dec 2014 · 3 mos · Greater Jaipur Area

  • Lead and developed core backend and dashboard
DatabasesTeam CollaborationWeb ApplicationsTeam ManagementCloud ComputingSQL+2

Wireddin interactive

Android Developer

May 2013 – Jul 2013 · 2 mos

  • P&G Forms Automation:
  • Worked on an Android Tablet application for collection of data and working conditions inside the Procter and Gamble plant. Worked on the application UI, logic and saving of data offline on the device until its synced with the server by connecting to a computer.
DatabasesWeb ApplicationsSoftware DevelopmentComputer Science

Education

National Institute of Technology Surat

Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) — Computer Engineering

Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

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