Harshit Agarwal

• Provided technical leadership to a team of 3 engineers with architecture reviews and code reviews. • Single-handedly completed a major data migration + backend refactor: 50% faster load times for user, 50% less data duplication, 40% module-size reduction, 15k+ LOC refactored. • Drove search-system redesign by integrating Typesense, reducing zero-result queries from 40% → 5%. • Oversaw development of voice recording feature with FFmpeg-based audio transcoding; adopted 20k+ times in 4 months. • Supervised and contributed to the development of a user-interaction analytics system, enabling clickstream insights and completely eliminating system abuse through rate limiting. • Conducted 100+ technical interviews, helping build a strong engineering pipeline. • Integrated Smartlook for live issue reproduction, reducing debugging turnaround time by 50%. • Partnered with customer support to close 200+ issues with 1-day SLA.

• Led development of the platform’s notification system, delivering 50+ notifications with 1M+ impressions. • Boosted PageSpeed scores of logged-out pages from 70–80 → 98+, improving acquisition funnels. • Led a full redesign of internal CMS with strict validation, reducing upload errors to zero. • Set up Sentry for frontend error tracking, enabling reliable post-deployment monitoring and resolving hundreds of user-facing issues. • Migrated critical database libraries with zero downtime. • Initiated and ran weekly technical knowledge-sharing sessions across teams, conducting 100+ sessions.

• Built a recommendation system for yoga poses, improving class-planning workflow speed by 90%. • Led and contributed to a frequently requested core feature requiring updates across 20+ critical modules; launched with zero errors and used in 50k+ yoga sequences. • Optimized mission-critical backend scripts, reducing processing time from 2 hours → 10 minutes. • Developed cron-based content-feed processing for thousands of poses, reducing duplicate content by 50%. • Added the ability to tag poses, enabling better content discovery; feature used 200k+ times.

Majored in Computer Science and dabbled in philosophy (mostly political theory and existentialism)