Harsh Bharvada

Senior Software Engineer

Kolkata, West Bengal, India7 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Mentored over 100+ engineers at Google.
Developed impactful features for high-traffic applications.
Expert in Kotlin and Android development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer with expertise in B2C applications and Fintech solutions.

Contact

harsh07bharvada@gmail.com +91 99036 63485 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

AndroidKotlinJavascriptNode.jsAngularJava

Other Skills

AlertingAndroid JetpackBack-End Web DevelopmentBootstrapCC (Programming Language)C++CSSElasticsearchExpress.jsGitGo (Programming Language)Google MapsGreenSock Animation Platform (GSAP)HTML5

About

Passionate, driven and ambitious full stack developer with strong problem solving & analytical skills having experience in Kotlin & JavaScript-based technologies. Proficient in Android, Kotlin, Node.js & Express.js and always eager to learn something new. Looking forward to connecting with you.

Experience

7 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Google

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos · Remote

Kotlin Readbility
Mentored over 100+ people across Google to write cleaner and more readable Kotlin
WIMT (Where is my train)🚆
Responsible for Android launches, releases, monitoring for the same, leading the Android team and setting direction towards following Android + Kotlin best practices.
Developed a special Kumbh Mela experience in WIMT powered by Google Maps showing users key nearby places in Prayagraj impacting 0.25M DAU during Kumbh Mela 2025.
Improved cold startup time for the app by 10% by setting by Macrobenchmarks.
Set up a complete client monitoring and alerting system from scratch to understand, track and alert catastrophic situations in code health or product features.
Designed and drove a scalable notification system which sends disruption notifications to relevant audience
Designed and drove Alerts Inbox feature which shows users real time disruption/ alerts information in advance

AndroidAndroid JetpackKotlin

Software Engineer III

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos · Remote

WIMT (Where is my train)
Intracity Local Trains Launch
Designed and implemented end-to-end the first-ever Schematic Maps experience for Local users. Users can track their live location projected on the Mumbai Local + Metro schematic map. Used rubber sheeting to train cell towers inside the city's S2Cell region and packed the lat/long to pixel file in the client for offline tracking of live location.
Designed and implemented end-to-end the city selector feature. Users view the local train experience for the city based on the cell tower/ location and the S2Cell region instantly. DAU for the feature is ~15M.
Designed and implemented Local train autosuggest.
Designed and implemented the Recent Train feature for the Intracity Local trains launch. This is very similar to the smart suggestions list present in the Whatsapp forward share sheet.
Significantly improved latency of evaluating user’s nearest station for local train experience by ~95% to ~6ms
Train Bookings in GPay
Significantly reduced the IRCTC LBR ratio (Look to Book) by 5x. This resulted in daily savings of > 1L INR.

KotlinAndroid JetpackSystems DesignPython (Programming Language)AndroidJava

Paypal

Software Engineer II

Aug 2021 – Mar 2022 · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Remote

TypeScriptReact.jsGo (Programming Language)JavaScript

Jio

Software Development Engineer I

Aug 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr · Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Remote

Removal of cyclic redundancies in the graph-based conversational flow of Chatbots in Node.js
Significantly optimised performance for implementation of Correction Strings in Bot queries by ~96% from 3s to 110ms in Node.js
Single-handedly adopted Node.js + TypeScript for Gratification microservice of JioEngage in MyJio app.
Integrated default metrics of Prometheus for monitoring of data in Node.js.
Creating reusable, reactive form-based components using Angular Material
Lead & revamped the complete design as well as the development of the Dashboard experience by integrating Chart.js using ng2-charts in Angular
Implementing save feature of pagination states in data tables in UI using NgRx & Angular

Node.jsMongoDBAngularJavaScriptElasticsearch

Cognizant

2 roles

Associate-Projects

Aug 2018 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Kolkata Area

Responsible for revamping of code and optimising the conversion of excel data to JSON and subsequent Mongoose models using Node.js & Express.js, MongoDB.
Handling user authentication using JSON Web Tokens.
Creating components and data population using Angular & Bootstrap.
Enhanced the design for creating dynamic reports by using Java Jasper Reports for faster generation and less design dependency.
Improved ~53% performance in loading data tables by creating native Draggable & Droppable reusable tables using JQuery & JavaScript instead of jqxGrid library. Integrated data using REST API, Java Servlets & AJAX.

JavaScriptJavaNode.jsSpring MVCJdbcJasper Reports+2