Harsh Agrawal | Senior Backend & Cloud Engineer

ABOUT

I am a Senior Software Engineer, AI enthusiast, and continuous learner with 8+ years of professional experience building distributed systems. I am passionate about learning new skills, staying updated with the latest industry trends, and applying best practices to software engineering.

I specialize in designing, developing, testing, and deploying scalable and reliable microservices. My technical expertise spans Java, AWS cloud architecture, Docker containerization, and event-driven data streaming.

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EXPERIENCE

key areas

Distributed Systems, Microservices Architecture, Cloud Platform Design (AWS), Java Engineering, and Event-Driven Pipelines.

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2026

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Senior Software Engineer

Palo Alto, CA, USA

July 2024 - Present

2023

Sleep Number Labs

Cloud Software Engineer

San Jose, CA, USA

May 2019 - Nov 2023

2019

San Jose State University

Student Assistant

San Jose, California, USA

Sept 2018 - May 2019

Cognizant Technology Solutions

Software Engineer {Full Stack Development}

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Feb 2018 - July 2018

2018

Decurtis Corporation

Software Engineer

Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Jan 2017 - Feb 2018

2017

education

Master's, M.S.

Software Engineering

San Jose State University, San Jose, CA

Software Systems Engineering, Enterprise Software Platforms, Enterprise Distributed Systems, Enterprise App Development, Software Testing, Smartphone App Development, Human Computer Interaction.

Aug 2018 - May 2020

Bachelor's, B.Tech

Information Technology

Rajasthan Technical University, India

Core course subjects including Data Structures, Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Database Management Systems, Computer Networks, and Software Engineering principles.

2013 - 2017

iOS Development

CodePath Course

CodePath.org (SJSU)

Intensive practical training in Swift, UIKit, iOS SDK, REST API integrations, Core Data, and Xcode. Built and published multiple fully functional iOS applications.

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Jan 2019 - May 2019

Certifications

Cloud & DevOps

Industry Credentials

• AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Jan 2026 - Jan 2029)
• GitHub Foundations (Apr 2024 - Apr 2027)

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skills and expertise

Java

Spring Boot, Hibernate, Jersey, REST APIs

Python & Go

Scripting, AWS Lambdas, Serverless Application Logic

Databases

Aurora DB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra

Amazon Web Services

EC2, ECS, Lambda, API Gateway, Cognito, IAM, SQS, CloudWatch, Route 53

Docker & Containers

Containerizing services, deploying on AWS ECS Fargate

Kafka & Streaming

Apache Kafka, AWS MSK, Event-driven architecture

Git & Collaboration

Source code management, GitHub workflows, release coordination

AI Developer Tools

Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Prompt Engineering

Testing & QA

JUnit, Mockito, Integration Testing, Jenkins CI/CD