Harshit Kumar holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating in 2018 with a GPA of 3.8. Harshit has experience as a Software Engineering Intern at Yelp, where contributions included developing an optimized geo-sharding scheme for Elasticsearch indexes, and at Facebook, focusing on the Messenger Team's ranking systems. Harshit also worked as a Software Engineering Intern at Agrible, Inc., initially in backend web development and later transitioning to DevOps, and served as a Course Assistant for CS 173 - Discrete Structures. Additionally, Harshit contributed as a Research Assistant at Motion Strategy Lab, creating a co-op VR game in Unity. Most recently, Harshit has been employed as a Software Engineer at Meta within the Business Messaging organization.
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San Mateo, United States