Harish
Kandala

• Led all cross-functional (XFN) discussions, streamlining an idea proposal into a long-running project, thereby creating scope for the team. This initiative resulted in a reduction of more than 2,000 cases per month on the Helpdesk platform, an in-house CRM platform for employees at Meta.
• Successfully architected and implemented multiple data pipelines with sophisticated Presto queries, which improved the use of user exploration data for helpdesk use cases and opened up opportunities for new projects.
• Improved the internal Facebook router matching algorithm, which was observed to have more than 50,000 hits per second. Experimented with and measured multiple optimization techniques; the final approach yielded a 90% reduction in processing time, from 3 milliseconds to 300 microseconds.

• Contributed to multiple core modules in Yugabyte Platform, a private DBaaS for enterprises. Took complete ownership of SSL and certificate management features. Developed public APIs for toggling TLS, certificate rotation, cluster upgrades, and various other features and performance improvements.
• Designed and led the development of the Activity Logs feature in Yugabyte Cloud, a fully managed DBaaS. Activity Logs have significantly improved the time it takes for an admin to diagnose the problems faced by users.

• Analyzed and optimized performance-intensive APIs critical to the user experience, achieving significant load time improvements (from 8 minutes to 16 seconds and from 15 minutes to 20 seconds). This was accomplished by executing complex client-side Javascript code on the server using the Nashorn JS engine.
• Developed a distributed asynchronous task framework using Spring JMS, ActiveMQ, and MySQL as the Task Store. This framework provided a reliable method for running hundreds of file processing tasks in parallel.
• Led the migration of a web app, comprising over 100 AngularJS components, to Angular 10 with a team of 8 developers. This migration was praised for its zero disruption to the user experience and timely feature delivery.

• Contributed to various critical modules in Visa's global billing platform, which aims to replace all existing regional billing platforms responsible for 33% of Visa’s revenue.

• Developed a cross-platform status tracker dashboard that parses information from multiple data streams on Visa's billing platform using Spring Boot, Angular 2, and the Ionic framework.

• GPA: 9.06/10
• Relevant Coursework: Software Engineering, Software Project Management, Object-Oriented Paradigm and Programming, Internet and Web Programming, Database Systems, Data Structures and Algorithms, Algorithm Design and Analysis, Operating Systems and Computer Networks.

• Developed a Progressive Web App (PWA) using Next.js that aggregates news feeds from various sources, including HackerNews, Reddit, Dev.to, Hashnode, etc., and displays them in a customizable dashboard. Created serverless API endpoints and deployed the project on Vercel.

• Implemented and deployed a RESTful API that compiles source code in the cloud, supporting more than 70 programming languages. This project was developed as an open-source alternative to the SphereEngine API by scraping the Ideone website using PHP as a backend. Provided API clients in Java and Python.

• Designed a generative model using TensorFlow that synthesizes handwriting data for any input text. The generated data can be restricted to follow any of the five pre-trained handwriting styles.
• The compiled model contains three layers of LSTMs, one Mixture Density Network, and a differentiable attention mechanism. It was trained on the IAM-OnDB dataset, which contains handwritten lines gathered from 223 writers.

Java, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++

MySQL, PostgreSQL, YugabyteDB

Spring Boot, Play, Node.js, React, Next.js, Angular, FastAPI, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Elastic Stack, Prometheus, Grafana, TensorFlow