Harsh Agarwal Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

⇨ Managing the growth and career satisfaction of a 2-pizza team of 5 hardworking and dedicated engineers.⇨ Established a 3 year vision for the team and a roadmap to get there; iterating over the roadmap every quarter.⇨ Established weekly operational excellence review, bi-weekly Kanban review, monthly retro and "show-and-tell", and a quarterly town hall. ⇨ Established Away Team process.⇨ Managed the replacement of a legacy C++ application that reactively computes inventory for the website with a AWS Fargate hosted Java application. ⇨ Supporting a S-team goal to keep the website latency neutral by prioritizing investment in new APIs that scale logarithmically with the supply chain network.⇨ Supporting a transformative project that creates a dichotomy between supply used for fulfillment and supply used for the website, unlocking multi-million dollars worth of entitlement hidden away in the supply chain.

Seattle, Wa, Us

⇨ Designed and implemented software for managing Prime Wardrobe inventory and offers.⇨ Launched Offer Level VAT Calculation Service in EU (allowing 500K sellers to provide downloadable VAT receipts)⇨ Changed how the Amazon website discovers offers, a crucial step around the making Amazon's core experience regional.⇨ Automated Fresh Merchant launch (reducing elapsed time from 2-3 weeks to 2 days per merchant)⇨ Evangelized, designed, and developed the need for a strongly-typed offer interface to non-website facing clients. ⇨ Represented the team in 4 Prime Days and 4 Black Friday/Cyber Mondays⇨ Authored 2 COEs, provided guidance on various others.⇨ Mentored 2 SDEs, onboarded 4 SDEs.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

⇨ Principal developer in an Agile team of 4 responsible for designing and developing foundationalmessaging framework for a 5 year long FX trading platform renovation program⇨ Point of contact in the team for the Architecture group overseeing the program

Au

On sabbatical for family reasons.During this 6 month period, I:⇨ spent a considerable amount of time with family⇨ acquired a PMP certification⇨ got my hands dirty with iOS programming⇨ aced Cloud Computing Concepts at Coursera.org⇨ learnt how to make bagels and bread

Somerville, Ma, Us

● Business Strategy and Personnel Development⇨ Key person involved in all aspects of opening the London branch of the consulting firm- first office outside of the headquarters.⇨ Leveraged business contacts and network to expand company’s presence. Continuous networking effort led to a potential merger with well-established consulting firm in the UK.⇨ Worked with senior company executives to establish an autonomous, yet collaborative, operating model for the London office. Maintained balance sheet for the London office.⇨ Implemented recruiting, training and reviewing strategy to staff the new office in London. Strategy involved utilizing various mediums (websites, networking events etc.) to reach out to potential candidates, introducing a rigorous interviewing structure, creating a training program for new hires and implementing a measurable review system to monitor employee progress.

Somerville, Ma, Us

● Technology Management⇨ Established IT best practices and set standards to ensure high quality end-results.⇨ Managed team of onshore and offshore developers and encouraged collaboration of staff spread over various time zones.⇨ Developed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and frequently reported these KPIs to senior management and project stakeholders.⇨ Worked with program managers to prepare project budgets and tracked against budgets.● Business Analysis⇨ Worked with trader groups at a global investment bank and regulatory compliance groups in Asia to analyze complex and large trading datasets (2 million market orders and executions per day) to create technical requirements for an inventory management system that regulates short selling in Asian markets. ⇨ Analyzed data to develop rules for calculating unencumbered assets for an international broker-dealer leading to the identification of assets worth 9 billion USD that were eligible for liquidation on a daily basis.⇨ Worked with quantitative traders of an investment bank to refine valuation models used for valuing equity swaps.● System Design⇨ Worked with internal audit of an investment bank and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to design and develop an improved process through which traders can sign off their profit & loss and market risks within 30 minutes of market close (an improvement of 85% over the previous time and within FCA’s guidelines). Managed offshore personnel in a development center in Poland during implementation of the process. ⇨ Designed a system to source equity swaps to a risk management system enabling real-time risk management of 70% of the trading books.

Us

⇨ Worked with a Budapest-based development team in designing a component that integrated e-mail servers with the company’s document storage system.⇨ Played a key role in onboarding multiple clients by analyzing their data stores and designing and executing a strategy to securely migrate them to the company’s document storage system.

⇨ Tech lead of the Infinidex’s social network platform for law firms and venture capitalists.⇨ Pitched the product to angel investors.

Madrid, Es

⇨ Developed a system that allowed Amadeus booking system to show the seat-map of airlines on other booking systems.

Masters Of Science, Computer Systems Engineering

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science