Harkunwar Kochar
Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHarkunwar Kochar is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building performant, user-focused web and embedded systems, currently shaping data and visualization tooling at Databricks after impactful tenure at Splunk. He has led cross-functional features used by thousands—adding support for 100+ custom visualizations, shipping dashboard PDF scheduling for on-prem customers, and migrating large codebases from JS to TypeScript—while improving developer velocity through build and CI optimizations. Comfortable from low-level firmware to cloud services, he has contributed research-grade ML tooling (bootkmeans) and shipped embedded lighting firmware used in film and TV productions. A practiced Scrum Master and conference speaker, he blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and product sensibility to turn customer requests into secure, maintainable solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at The University of British Columbia
English, Hindi, Punjabi, Spanish
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Github Skills (80)
figma10
nodejs10
nextjs10
javascript9
visual9
angular9
qwik9
react9
shopify9
vue9
solidjs8
jsx8
svelte8
resume7
devtools7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Harkunwar/nix-config
Mar 2023 - Aug 2025
My personal experience with using Nix Package Manager
Contributions:16 PRs, 182 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 5 months
labcolab/colab
Nov 2020 - Jun 2021
Contributions:16 reviews, 18 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 months
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