I'm
Harsh Agrawal
On my journey to make a dent in the world.
Check out my book that covers my journey about:
- Learning 3+ programming languages during high school
- Self-publishing multiple video games on Play Store
- Getting into NYU with a $100K scholarship
- Dropping out of college within the 1st year
- Becoming the youngest SWE for a $10B+ tech company (Avalara)
- 10xing my salary and consulting remotely for US startups
- Building a DevTools startup that got 10K+ signups
- Getting interest from Tier 1 VCs (a16z, Sequoia, etc.)
- and a lot more!
Featured Videos
The Indian Edtech Story
Got featured on the 1st episode of The Indian Edtech Story, a Docuseries on Hotstar (Netflix of India). Coding Ninjas covered my story of how I got my first tech job through their bootcamp, dropped out of college in just the 2nd semester, worked at Avalara (a $10B+ tech company) for a couple of years, and started my own startup DevKit!
How to start a Tech Startup? | Choose between Job and Startup | Destination X | Coding Ninjas
I was invited for this 90 minutes long podcast with the Founder and CEO of Coding Ninjas Ankush Singla Sir and a Microsoft Engineer Naman Jain. We talked about the difference in the daily life as a Software Engineer at a tech giant and as a Founder of an early-stage startup.
Getting Started with Google Summer of Code - Shashank Kirtania (GSoC'22, PyMC)
Recorded a podcast with my high-school friend Shashank Kirtania who was selected for GSoc'22 for the PyMC organization. He talked about his journey to getting selected for PyMC, his experience during the program, tips for new college students, and a lot more things!
Products
Dabbling in SaaS, DevTools, Education, and more
Featured Blogs
My ZFellows Experience
ZFellows was a life-changing experience for me. I still can't imagine how some random Twitter doomscrolling got me into it.
Essential Advice for Beginner Software Engineers
This advice is based on my 4 years of SDE career, 8 years of programming, and 100s of conversations with engineers and folks in tech.
Lessons I learned from my failed side project
I worked on a side project for 6 months. Even though I failed with it, I learned valuable lessons from it. Take a look.
My Journey
TechKareer
Founder
April 2024 - Present
- Connecting top startups across the globe with top tech talent
- Helped Rifflix.com (SF based startup by a Stanford grad), BanterAI.business (NYC based startup), and CodeMate.AI (One of the Top AI startups of India building Grammarly for Developers)
BanterAI
Lead Software Engineer
Jun 2023 - April 2024
- Worked on low-latency voice call (<2s response time) experiences for web and phone with websockets and Twilio
- Setup efficient RAG system to provide bots access to long-form content and real-time information
- Built internal tools to fine-tune LLMs in seconds
DevKit
Founder
Jan 2022 - Present
- Bundled and AI-powered tools to help developers save 10s of hours every week.
- $5K revenue. 8K+ signups. $10K raised from ZFellows.
- Pitched to partners at a16z, Sequoia, Nexus Tech Ventures, Techstars, etc. on 1-1 virtual calls
DappCamp
Software Engineer
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
- Built a custom course platform to migrate from a revenue-sharing platform resulting in savings of over $25K
- Built an internal hiring platform to connect Web3 companies with developers
- Scraped and analyzed data for market research
Avalara
Software Engineer
Jul 2020 - Dec 2021
- Migrated multi-node EC2 based ElasticSearch 6 cluster to EKS based ElasticSearch 7 cluster. The cluster stored more than 500M records.
- Worked on data pipelines built with Spark and Scalding processing terabytes of data every month
- Built a low-code tool with Go and React to allow users to scrape websites with an intuitive user interface. It is being used extensively across multiple teams.
- Built a Scala REST API to transform cross border taxes and rates data for downstream systems.
Avalara
Software Engineer intern
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
- Went through a 3 months bootcamp covering Scala, data processing with Akka Streams, Spark, Docker, and Kubernetes. I implemented Okta Authentication for one of our internal apps
- Maintained internal and open-source Scala projects.
- Contributed to managing our monthly data processing cycle.
Places you can stalk me
I'm chronically online, so you will see me posting something everyday on one or more of these platforms