Harsh Gupta (@harsh2204)
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Software Engineer @ Tesla
Palo Alto, CA
Software Engineer | Crafting Ideas into Reality
Skills
Python ⋅ Expert
Web Development ⋅ Advanced
React ⋅ Intermediate
Typescript ⋅ Advanced
GO ⋅ Intermediate
Linux ⋅ Advanced
C ⋅ Intermediate
C++ ⋅ Intermediate
Projects
socketjoy
(2020) A webapp that turns your smartphone into a game controller
HTMLCSSJavaScript
Over the course of two weeks, I was able to come up with a working prototype for turning my iphone into a virtual controller. The app is web-based, so it is compatible with all modern devices that have a web browser.
conky-spotify
(2022) :musical_note: Show current Spotify track in Conky (Cover, title...)
Shell
vstNN
(2020) Modeling and distilling vst-fx plugins to run them on smaller hardware
PythonVST3-FX
An ambitious neural network project that models various vst-fx plugins with the hope of distilling the tone down to a simpler form to run on smaller hardware like Raspberry Pi
Reverse-Regex-Crossword
(2019) A 3D implemetation of regex crossword with a rule-based regex generator
CefPython3Three.jsJavascriptPython
This implementation uses a vanilla python in the back-end with cef-python and three.js for the front-end.
Experience
Software Development Engineer - Infrastructure R&D (Cloud Platforms)
Tesla tesla.com
Jun 2023 to Present ⋅ Palo Alto, CA
• Led frontend development and contributed to the Tesla Private Cloud platform, significantly reducing the company's cloud expenditure by transitioning the cloud footprint in-house, in deploying hardware on the order of $5B. • The platform played a crucial role in controlling the company's cloud spend, reducing reliance on external cloud vendors like AWS and Azure, and saving hundreds of millions of dollars. • Developed multiple web applications using NextJS to enhance developer experience and speed up onboarding for new developers. • Worked extensively on backend development using Golang, creating and designing web APIs in a microservice architecture. • Created an admin-only dashboard for core services within a week using NextJS and React, with beta testing initiated within two weeks. • Utilized various technologies across service verticals, such as Clickhouse for the monitoring stack database and Prometheus for alerts and monitoring. • Implemented comprehensive documentation services to streamline code use-case documentation and iteration for developers using MDX and Nextra. • Mentored and converted interns into full-time positions, demonstrating leadership and fostering talent development.
- Spearheaded frontend initiatives using NextJS and server-side rendering, leveraging the latest patterns and conventions to improve the overall developer experience.
- Achieved substantial cost savings by transitioning cloud services in-house, resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in reduced external cloud vendor bills.
Core Infrastructure Software Engineering Intern
Tesla tesla.com
Oct 2021 to Sep 2022 ⋅ Fremont, CA (Remote)
• Added GitHub Support to existing Python monolith of a devops-bot, while also refactoring and simplifying the code, and wrote documentation with visualizations. • Developed permission management and access request automation scripts using Python. • Performed alternative market analysis for software tools and performed internal surveys and beta-testing for prospective software tooling to improve existing workflows. • Created a licensing report generator for GHE Admins to support clustered instances, and aggregate the correct licensing figures across various instances for the report. • Developed a GitHub user cleanup tool in Python to suspend inactive AD users, a global team management tool using Python. • Created a GitHub organization tracker and a GitHub-JIRA PR linker using NodeJS and Docker. • Wrote disaster recovery testing scripts for various engineering applications, using Bash, Docker, Selenium, and Python. • Built a Web-App using the T3 stack, within a week for an internal engineering-apps Documentation portal and which was later released in two weeks. • Worked on features for a large scale internal web app project with a Django + React TypeScript stack, and specifically implemented Frontend designs using the TDS and Tailwind.
- Reduced overall human involvement in processing access requests for internal engineering tools by automating the process using modular approach in python along with Jenkins.
- Helped improve reporting mechanisms for tool monitoring jobs using bash and python, to improve the fault detection/retention in worst-case scenarios
Backend Software Engineer and QA Systems Manager
IBM ibm.com
May 2019 to Aug 2020 ⋅ Markham, ON
• Revived and revamped the QA infrastructure, both software and hardware, for the DB2 install team. • Authored the automation scripts to speed up deployment of new hardware in various environments using Python, POSIX bash, and Playbook by Ansible. • Wrote a validation failure classifier and tracker from the ground up, to automate and speed up the failure investigation process using fastText and other in-house text classification techniques, all backed by a Django back-end. • Started a side-project on synthesizing audio books by splicing the input text in the right way so the TTS engine creates a flowing audio book. Actively looking for solutions to the problem of pronunciation of names for a better audio book experience • Designed and proposed a transformer-based documentation generator to resolve simple customer issues quicker.
- Software Automation
- Failure Classification and Tracking
- Better Audiobook Synthesis
Education