Jalaj Harkawat

Software Engineer

Hyderabad, Telangana, India4 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led a team of 50+ to improve NGO efficiency by 15%.
  • Raised over INR 71L+ for community education initiatives.
  • Developed machine learning algorithms for predictive analysis.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in Cloud Computing and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentLeadership

Other Skills

AlgorithmsBootstrapC (Programming Language)C++Data AnalysisData AnalyticsData ScienceData StructuresDecision-MakingDeep LearningDocumentationEconomicsFundraisingHTMLHaskell

About

Hello, I am a Software Engineer at Microsoft, part of the team enhancing Windows Search and Globalization with Gen-AI capabilities. I graduated in 2022 from IIT Kharagpur with an Integrated Master of Science in Mathematics & Computing. As a problem solver, tech enthusiast, and coder, I am passionate about Data Science, NLP, and Software Development. I thrive on taking initiatives, leading discussions, dividing tasks, and guiding teams through execution. If you enjoy stepping outside your comfort zone and exploring new challenges, let's connect. Fields of Interest: - Software Development - Competitive Programming - Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing - Consulting (Case-Solving) - Leadership and Public Speaking In addition to my professional interests, I am an avid sports enthusiast with a keen interest in basketball and squash. I also dedicated five years to the Gopali Youth Welfare Society, India's largest student-run NGO, supporting the local community around IIT Kharagpur. I am always excited to meet new people and take on challenging opportunities. Feel free to reach out to me via email at jalaj.iitkgp@gmail.com.

Experience

4 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs
Current Experience

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 8 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

  • Contributing to Azure SQL DB

Software Engineer

Jun 2022Oct 2025 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Operating SystemsC++Software Development

Mastercard

Summer Intern

May 2021Jul 2021 · 2 mos · Pune, Maharashtra, India

  • Confidential Work

Gopali youth welfare society

Chief Sponsorship Manager

Apr 2020May 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Dedicated 2000+ hours to a tenure comprising of all 4 tiers of hierarchy to India’s largest student-run NGO, Gopali Youth Welfare Society
  • Leadership
  • Increased the efficiency by 15% via collaboration tools & automation of tasks while leading a team of 50+ IITian’s
  • Surveyed 1000+ villagers to assess their living standards in 27 villages with a team of 70+ members & 11 teachers
  • Initiatives
  • Coined JVMCare, a new fund-raising program to provide transportation to students and stability to teachers’ salary
  • Transformed fundraising by introducing corporate matching which resulted in 1.2X higher per capita donation
  • Co-initiated Hostel Construction for 150 students of classes 4-12 by successfully raising funds of INR 17L+ in 1 year
  • Impact and Achievements
  • Raised a total amount of INR 71L+ and saw YoY growth of ~17% in the financial year 20-21 amid global pandemic
  • Provided free of cost education to 250 underprivileged students; generated permanent employment for 25 people
  • Lauded by the Hon’ble HRM Dr. Ramesh Pokhriyal, & got featured in NDTV & The Telegraph(COVID relief initiative)
Leadership

Ic2c

Co-Founder

Apr 2020Apr 2021 · 1 yr

  • Modelled a final algorithm for machine learning, software development, finance, and marketing to predict scores based on the resume.
  • Preprocessed the project data using nltk, SpaCy, and Stanford CoreNLP Lemmatization and extracted the keywords from each project.
  • Analysed the performance of a transformer-based model: Bert, XLNet (both pre-trained, fine-tune with relevant data) for generating word embedding and then multiplying with TF-IDF weights to generate sentence embeddings and Sentence BERT for direct generation.
  • Analysed the performance of models like K-means, deep NN like Deep Embedded Clustering, Agglomerative, and Birch for clustering.
  • Manoeuvred BS4, Selenium, scrapy, and a host of APIs like PhantomBuster for scraping 4L+ Google scholar profiles, 50k+ online courses, 3k+ LinkedIn profiles, 20k+ colleges from college Duniya and 30k+ companies, etc. for training and building the model.

Indian institute of technology, kharagpur

A software based on JGraphEd for visualising as well as implementing standard graph based algorithm

Jul 2019Nov 2019 · 4 mos · Kharagpur Area, India

  • Development Platforms Frontend: Python with PyQt4 for GUI,
  • Backend: C++ with standard headers.
  • Working with a team to develop software in which one can draw a graph with the user-friendly environment, move/delete edges and vertices, apply algorithms like Minimum Spanning Tree, blossom, BFS, DFS and other standard algorithms with graph data structures.
  • UML Diagrams for a better understanding of the project and maintain the proper architecture.
  • The final aim of the project is to create an application that is user-friendly and one can use all these algorithms without actually coding them.

Institute for development and research in banking technology (idrbt)

Research Intern

May 2019Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Hyderabad Area, India

  • Restricted Boltzmann Machine& ML classification algorithms to built a Deep Learning Architecture and predict Credit Card Defaulter.
  • Achieved an F1 score of 34 percent and a sensitivity of 61 percent using (RBM + SVM).
  • A probabilistic approach of Restricted Boltzmann Machine abstraction for feature selection and then processed the data with SVM, Naive Bayes, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, MLP, etc. to predict the defaulter.
  • Used the modified form of RBM such as Discriminative RBM and Deep RBM for improvements.

Education

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

MSc - Master of Science — Mathematics and computing

Jan 2017Jan 2022

Central Academy Senior Secondary School

Class 12 — Science and Mathematics

Jan 2015Jan 2017

Central Academy Senior Secondary School

Class 10

Jan 2014Jan 2015

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