đź‘‹ I'm
Harsh Agrawal.

I work on ideas that make a dent in the world.

Check out my recent book on my journey about learning programming, getting into NYU with a $100K scholarship, dropping out of college, working in corporate and remotely for US startups, getting interest from Tier 1 VCs (like a16z, Sequoia, Nexus Tech Ventures), my first SaaS acquisition, and making my first crore by age 22.

My Experience

Here are some of past Experiences.

BanterAI

Jun 2023-Present

Lead Software Engineer

  • Working 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", badge: "React"
    • webSocket
    Twilio

    Devkit

    Jan 2022-Present

    Founder

  • 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
    • Vercel
    AWS
    NextJS

    DappCamp

    Mar 2022-Jan 2023

    Software Engineer

  • 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
    • Python
    Solidity
    NextJS
    Amazon ECS

    Avalara

    Jul 2020-Dec 2021

    Software Engineer

  • 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.
    • ReactJS
    NodeJS
    Apache Spark
    GoCD
    Temporal
    Scala

    Avalara

    Mar 2020-Jun 2020

    Software Engineer intern

  • 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.
    • NodeJS
    Docker
    Kubernets
    Javascript
    Scala
    Apache Spark

    Press Sectioin X Featured Videos

    Featured on Hotstar (the Netflix of India)

    https://www.linkedin.com/posts/itsharshag_i-am-so-excited-to-share-that-i-got-featured-activity-7165159678304276480--Pfb/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

    10 lpa Package CTC - Tech Round of a Drop Out

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK6drJkcPDc

    The Journey of Harsh Agarwal | From A College Drop out to a Package of 10 LPA | Career Camp|

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOPHkvKupcQ

    Projects and Products

    Here are some of my Products.

    Mini-book
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    Cohort-based Course
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    DevKit
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    Devin for Data Analysis
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    Ethereum Developer Tooling Landscape
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    Featured Blogs

    ZFellows Experience

    My ZFellows Experience was life-changing. I can’t imagine how got into it. Just completely random Twitter surfing got me into it....

    Essential Advice for Beginner Software Engineers (31 Mar’23)

    This advice is based on my 4 years of professional software engineering career and 8 years of hobbyist software engineering, and hundreds of conversations with engineers and folks in tech.....

    Lessons I learned from my failed side project

    I worked on a side project for six months. Even though I failed with it, I learned a lot of valuable lessons from it. In this blog, I will share those with you. Hopefully, they will be useful in your journey too.....

    Love and Gratitude by Others.

    Here are some of the Love and Gratitude shown by others towards me.

    • It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
      Jared Palmer
      Charles Dickens
      A Tale of Two Cities
    • To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep.
      Jared Palmer
      William Shakespeare
      Hamlet
    • All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
      Jared Palmer
      Edgar Allan Poe
      A Dream Within a Dream
    • It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
      Jared Palmer
      Jane Austen
      Pride and Prejudice
    • Call me Ishmael. Some years ago—never mind how long precisely—having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.
      Jared Palmer
      Herman Melville
      Moby-Dick

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