Harsh Gupta (@harsh2204)
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Software Engineer @ Tesla
San Francisco, CA
Full-Stack Software Engineer
About
I'm a Full-Stack SWE at Tesla's Private Cloud Platform with 3 years of experience. Led the migration of our frontend UI to a high-performance NextJS application with SSR capabilities. Engineering graduate from McMaster University specializing in cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. Currently exploring AI applications and experimenting with AI integration into cloud platforms to enhance system intelligence and user productivity. Committed to advancing Tesla's mission through efficient, scalable software solutions.
Skills
Python ⋅ Expert
Web Development ⋅ Advanced
React ⋅ Expert
Typescript ⋅ Expert
Kubernetes ⋅ Intermediate
GO ⋅ Advanced
Devops ⋅ Intermediate
Linux ⋅ Advanced
C ⋅ Intermediate
C++ ⋅ Intermediate
Project Management ⋅ Beginner
Technical Writing ⋅ Beginner
Projects
shaderlab
An AI playground for creating, and learning about shader programing, leveraging more than 10 of top most models available through a BYOK model.
GormMinIOPostgresNextJsReactGolangIDBThree.JSGolangTypescript
Shaderlab was created from my frustration and inability to understand how shaders work, specifically the tribal knowledge around the mathematical constructs of drawing the entire image in 1 function call.
VFX Console
A fully featured, audio visualization console, with realtime shaders and playlist management
Nextjs 15TypescriptGLSL
socketjoy
(2020) A webapp that turns your smartphone into a game controller
CSSHTMLJavaScript
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.
Trinkets
A collection of hand-crafted and AI-assisted artifacts created by me, including a regex crossword game, music visualizer, and more
Three.JSCSSJavascriptHTML
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.
Cash Dat
A simple way to track who owes you money, and who you owe when you pay for one another, then request to get paid!
React NativeXCodeTypeScriptBatchfileShellMakefileHTMLCSSSwiftRubyPythonJavaScript
The inspiration for this project was drawn from the daily experiences of our team members. As post-secondary students, we often make purchases for our peers for convenience, yet forget to follow up. This can lead to disagreements and accountability issues. Thus, we came up with the idea of CashDat, to alleviate this commonly faced issue. People will no longer have to remind their friends about paying them back! With the available API’s, we realized that we could create an application to directly tackle this problem.
Micropython-ESP-8266
A collection of hand-crafted tutorials for beginners starting out on the micropython platform
HTMLMicropythonPython
This repo is a collection of my scripts for various scripts and tutorials that I've written in Micropython for the NodeMCU board with the ESP-8266 chip
MonopolyJava
A feature-rich implementation of monopoly game written in Java
NetBeansJava
This was a high-school project, that was completed over the course of two months in 2017
Garbage-IOT
A micropython project that provides weekly garbage/waste day information on a compatible micro controller like ESP32, ESP8266, etc.
MicropythonPythonCAD
This project involved a lot of design planning in terms of the hardware layout of the final product. I learned various CAD skills that went under my radar during my freshman CAD course.
explicitify
(2019) Convert spotify playlists from explicit to clean and vice-versa
Python
This project was started only as a quality of life improvement for myself and is one of the more presentable/sane QOL scripts I've written.
mira
(2019) MiRA – Medication Review Application – is an application that physicians and patients may use to gain more insight on the drugs they may be using or administering.
JavaPython
This project was a collaborative effort for a software design course wherein we implemented various popular search/sort algorithms in the application.
Experience
Software Development Engineer - Infrastructure R&D (Cloud Platform)
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