Harsha Hegde
✉️ harshakhegde@gmail.com
About Me
Engineering Manager in Atlassian with 13+ years of industry experience building large scale distributed systems and microservices from development to operation while managing, coaching, hiring and retaining top talent in the industry for over 4 years.
Technology enthusiast with expertise in Java, Microservices, Cloud Native and Cluster Management technologies such as Kubernetes.
I am a strong believer that good engineering culture leads to good products.
EXPERIENCE
Engineering Manager, Atlassian
Working as an Engineering Manager and site lead for Customer Support Technology. We build the platform that is used by millions of Atlassian users and Customer Support agents to provide top notch product support
- Hiring best of class developers and helping them with career progression that is beneficial to the TEAM and the individual
- Mentoring developers to significantly improve influence and broaden their impact
- Building a highly scaleable and flexible customer support platform.
- Constantly innovating our DevOps, SRE, release management processes
- Being at the top of the game on the tech stack with Java, Kotlin, springboot, AWS to name a few
Engineering Manager, Cisco Systems India
- APRIL 2019 - FEB 2021
I am working as an Engineering Manager in Cisco Webex Meetings solution, with hands-on experience in designing and running large scale microservices that handle Webex media load
Key responsibilities
- Building and managing microservices that handles media anchoring in Cisco Webex
- Build and own microservice that enables real-time transcription service for Cisco Webex
- Develop and deliver high-impact, forward-looking roadmaps for the teams
- Sprint planning, prioritization of deliverables and stakeholder alignment
- Fostering a culture of DevOps for sustained growth of the product
- Hiring, grooming and Coaching best of talent to build awesome products
Development Manager, SAP Labs India
- APRIL 2016 – APRIL 2019
As a hands-on development manager with below responsibilities in SAP Cloud Platform Integration (CPI in short) which is an enterprise integration middleware with close to 5000 enterprise customers
Key responsibilities
- Build and empower help the team run like a startup. Inculcate good engineering culture
- Experience building large scale distributed systems
- Architecture Design and Development: Feature design, hands-on coding, manage and optimize site reliability
- Experience balancing live-site management, feature delivery, and technical debt
- Technical Leadership: Innovation, Product roadmap, Grooming
- People management: Coaching, Managing performance. I loved coaching and engaging with Geeks in the team who always questioned and brought fresh perspective. Help channelize their energy in bringing method to madness
- Recruitment: Hiring (incl. premier institutions), Retention
Developer and Associate Architect, SAP Labs India
- JUL 2008 – MARCH 2016
In different roles as a Developer, Scrum Master and Associate Architect I was instrumental in building high performant cluster management component for SAP Cloud Platform Integration
Key Responsibilities
- Scrum Master: Sprint Planning, Execution and Continuous Improvements
- Senior Developer and Associate Architect: Feature design and development, Manage escalation, mentor new team members
- Recruitment: As technical panel member
Developer, Infosys, India
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JUN 2007–JUL 2008
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.net developer for a retail industry client
- Topped the Infosys training program
Projects and features
- Developed Zero downtime rolling software update
- Automatic failover of the applications
- Rolling restart of clusters
- Cluster management features like configuration distribution, dynamic content distribution to scale to thousands of enterprise customers
- Live Migration of cluster across major version with minimal downtime to enterprise customers
- Gaining first-hand experience on kubernetes by being active on Kubernetes Auto Scale SIG
Expertise
- Core java
- Expertise in designing and operating a high scalable cloud native software with rolling update, failover, cluster locking, distributed task management
- Deep expertise in building scalable microservices
- Built a functional programming framework on Java 7
- Built custom light weight task management framework using java's concurrency constructs
- Strong understanding of git to manage source code