Harshikesh Kumar
Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan
Summary
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SeniorHarsh Kumar is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft with a decade of experience and a strong academic foundation from IIT Kanpur (BTech, Electrical Engineering, GPA 9.33/10). He has progressed through multiple engineering roles and internships at Microsoft, where he prototyped gRPC optimizations in C# to balance memory and performance trade-offs between gRPC and REST for data extraction. Known for disciplined work ethic and rapid learning, he reliably drives engineering tasks to completion and adapts quickly to system-level challenges. Beyond coding, he has supported student governance and mentoring initiatives at IIT Kanpur, showing a penchant for improving processes and helping peers. Based in Hyderabad, Harsh combines systems-level thinking with practical engineering rigor, favoring deterministic results over flashy creativity. His profile suggests a strong capacity for backend performance tuning and production-proof-of-concept development that yields measurable improvements.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
java9
cpp9
objective-c9
static-analysis8
dotnet8
static-code-analysis8
static-analyzer7
mobile5
iot5
angularjs4
select23
selectize2
windows1
windows-sdk1
windows-app1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
richakhanna/save_my_city
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:22 commits, 22 pushes in 1 day
harshikesh/BuildItBigger-project-udacity
Oct 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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