Harsh S.

Staff Software Engineer @ Palo Alto Networks

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a strong foundation in computer science, backend systems, and scalable architecture. Passionate about solving complex problems, optimizing performance, and building resilient cloud-native applications. Core Competencies - Backend & Full-stack Development (Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, NodeJS, Angular, React) - Microservices, GraphQL APIs, and API Orchestration - Distributed Systems, Stream Processing, Event-driven Architecture - Cloud & DevOps: AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins - Data Management: SQL, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka - Test-Driven Development (JUnit, Supertest), CI/CD, Monitoring (Splunk, Wavefront)

Country

United States

City

Santa Clara

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

ArgoCD, Selenium WebDriver, scrapy, Kubernetes, TypeScript, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), FinTech, Systems Design, Web Applications, Design, Programming, Databases, Event Driven Programming, Database Management System (DBMS), Operating Systems, Cassandra, Angular, Angular Material

Experience

Staff Software Engineer

Palo Alto Networks

2025-9 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

Santa Clara, California, United States

Software Engineer II

Intuit

2021-9 - 2025-7 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Mountain View, California, United States

• Contributed to a tier-1 GraphQL service supporting millions of users with dynamic feature toggles and role-based access • Improved API performance by leveraging multithreaded calls to persistence and robust caching • Established active-active, multi-region architecture for stream processors handling 4000+ real-time events per second • Integrated multiple data sources into API orchestrators to ensure seamless downstream service communication • Leveraged AI tools like CoPilot and Qodo to boost development speed and enhance test coverage

Senior Consultant

Capgemini

2019-8 - 2021-9 · 2 yrs 2 mos

San Diego, California, United States

• Modernized a personal loan web application, improving loan approval process for 5000+ back-office employees • Built and optimized loan approval/rejection workflows, leveraging customer profile data to automate decision-making and improve processing efficiency • Implemented client-side validations using reactive forms, ensuring data quality, accuracy, and completeness throughout the loan application process. • Created a high-performance ETL process to handle 5 GB of customer records, optimizing data extraction, transformation, and loading into the database. • Utilized Splunk to track sensitive information access events and set up automated email alerts for increased security • Wrote unit test cases using Supertest to ensure code quality and reliability leveraging test-driven development (TDD) Environment: Angular, Reactive Forms, NodeJS, ExpressJS,J2EE, Spring framework, Spring Boot, Java8, javascript, , JUnit, splunk

Graduate Research Assistant

University at Albany

2019-1 - 2019-5 · 5 mos

Albany, New York Area

Responsible for developing the concept mapping feature, which provides analytics for educational software. Involved in designing concept mapping page for educational software.

Research Project Assistant ( The Research Foundation for SUNY)

University at Albany

2018-6 - 2018-12 · 7 mos

Albany, New York

• Developed Python scripts utilizing Selenium WebDriver and Scrapy to efficiently crawl over 20,000 articles from targeted websites. • Utilized NLTK libraries to clean data by removing noisy content and extracting relevant metaphors. • Leveraged a Word2Vec model that generated viewpoint-biased messages, enhancing the analysis of external events. Environment: python, NLTK, selenium web-driver, scrapy, SQL, word2vec