Harsh Tandon

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

17 years of experience in software engineering.
Expert in building scalable systems and managing teams.
Passionate about mentoring and team collaboration.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and AI solutions architect with extensive experience in team management and product development.

Contact

tandon.harsh@outlook.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Artificial Intelligence (ai)Google Cloud Platform (gcp)Product ManagementEngineering ManagementTechnical ArchitectureFront-end DevelopmentApi DevelopmentSystem Performance

Other Skills

.NETASP.NETAWSAgentic AIAgile & Waterfall MethodologiesAgile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnalytical SkillsApache KafkaArchitectureC#Cloud ComputingCoding StandardsCommunicationComputer Science

About

Over the years, I have led multiple teams of talented software engineers across various domains, delivering highly reliable and scalable systems for a product-based organisation. With over 17 years of experience in the software industry, I have extensive knowledge and skills in Java, C#, JavaScript and React, among other technologies and cloud platforms like AWS & GCP. I am passionate about nurturing motivated teams with a culture of collaboration and technical excellence. I am responsible for setting the technical milestones and vision for a variety of complex long-term projects, as well as for the career growth, mentorship, and performance reviews of my team members. My goal is to empower my teams to deliver innovative solutions that meet the needs and expectations of our customers.

Experience

16 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 3 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager @ Gemini Enterprise

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 3 mos

Building Gemini Enterprise as a part of Google Cloud AI
Gemini Enterprise is the central AI engine for deploying and managing an entire agent ecosystem. It provides a powerful portfolio of specialized, pre-built Google agents (e.g., Deep Research). Its accessible no-code/low-code interface democratizes AI development, all on an open architecture that ensures simple integration of Vertex AI-built agents and third-party solutions.

Agentic AIMCPGenerative AISaaS IntegrationArtificial Intelligence (AI)Google Cloud Platform (GCP)+2

Cvent

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Jul 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 8 mos

Software development manager for multiple teams spread across varied product lines at Cvent.

Cloud ComputingProduct StrategyProduct ManagementEngineering ManagementPerformance ReviewsSystem Performance+8

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2018 – Jun 2021 · 3 yrs 5 mos

Built and led two high-performance sprint teams comprising of 15 talented software engineers across multiple roles like the principal engineers, leads, senior engineers, UI developers, college hires and interns. Responsible for setting the technical milestones and vision for a variety of complex long term projects. Responsible for their career growth, mentorship, performance reviews among other people and team management responsibilities.

Cloud ComputingProduct StrategyProduct ManagementEngineering ManagementPerformance ReviewsSystem Performance+8

Principal Software Engineer

Jan 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Responsible for design and development of a variety of microservices over Java, front end applications using ES6/React and maintaining older legacy web applications and systems built over .Net/C#. Tech lead for a team of 5 software developers and direct manager for some.
Responsible for design of all critical aspects of new systems being built whether frontend or backend and hands-on development. Responsible for leading sprint planning, work distribution, and then on reviewing team's design and development deliveries ensuring adherence to all coding and architectural guidelines with a focus on minimising technical debt. Helped establish multiple processes over time that facilitate better QE/Dev collaboration leading to a direct reduction in defects and bug re-open rates.
Responsible for production releases and was first-in-line developer support for any production incidents for systems owned by my team.

Cloud ComputingProduct StrategyProduct ManagementEngineering ManagementSystem PerformanceFront-End Development+7

Lead Software Engineer

Oct 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos

Individual contributor as a frontend Javascript developer on Cvent's in-house reporting framework that provides a comprehensive set of widgets/charting tools that can be customized by developers for producing reports for their own product lines across Cvent.
My responsibilities included creating customizable React components that provided critical presentation abilities to the reporting framework & designing the state management workflow using Flux/Redux.

Cloud ComputingProduct StrategyProduct ManagementSystem PerformanceFront-End DevelopmentReliability+6

Tesco bengaluru

Principal Software Engineer

May 2013 – Oct 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · Bangalore

Part of the API Framework Team
Responsible for developing and implementing robust API solutions include caching, flow control, logging and monitoring, mediation, threat protection, traffic management and analytics.
Building innovative product demos and proofs-of-concept for specific customer scenarios.
Implementing technical solutions from a performance and scalability perspective, API solutions that can handle billions of calls a month.
Designing, implementing, consulting and making recommendations on new software infrastructure and frameworks.
Training developers and testers on good design and implementation in general.

Cloud ComputingProduct StrategyProduct ManagementSystem PerformanceFront-End DevelopmentReliability+7