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Harsh R.

Head of AI & Engineering | IIT Kanpur

India

3+ years of work experience

AIastro.talk
Oct 20251 yr 1 moPresent

Delhi, India

- Designed and shipped a full-stack AI SaaS platform solo, streaming chat and reports across 200+ routes, powered by a 100+ module AI orchestration layer with bilingual (EN/HI) intent routing. - Built a 3-provider LLM fallback system (Vercel AI Gateway, Gemini, Groq) with automatic failover and full observability for production reliability. - Developed a RAG-powered knowledge retrieval system and async pipeline generating structured PDF reports via LLM, with guardrails to block off-topic requests. - Launched usage-based billing and payments (Razorpay) with tiered access and full audit logging.
AIastro.talk
Sep 20252 mosOct 2025

After a period of deliberation, I took the leap to build my own product and company from the ground up.
Exotel Techcom
Feb 20257 mosAug 2025

Gurugram, Haryana, India

- Cut new-engineer onboarding time 96% (4 weeks → 1 day) by unifying 11 microservices into one Dockerized dev/QA environment - Scaled real-time AI call classification from 5K to 10K+ calls/minute while cutting latency 40% and infra cost 15% - Rebuilt the disaster-recovery pipeline (PostgreSQL, AWS Athena, Elasticsearch), reducing recovery time from 5 days to 30 minutes
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Jul 20231 yr 7 mosJan 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

- Built a fraud-detection microservice processing 1,500+ biometric scans/minute, optimizing MySQL indexing for sub-50ms latency - Designed a fault-tolerant, HSM-encrypted biometric pipeline (AWS S3 + Redis) with 80%+ test coverage - Automated 85% of biometric deduplication using an event-driven Kafka architecture for real-time fraud detection - Built an Operator Intervention Portal (React) visualizing 10+ KPIs, cutting manual workload 75%
Coding Ninjas
Jun 20215 mosOct 2021

- Taught a C++ Data Structures & Algorithms curriculum (recursion, graph theory, complexity analysis) to 16 students - Resolved 500+ technical queries through code reviews and debugging support, maintaining a 4.8/5 average rating
GitHub
@harxhist
Personal portfoliohar.sh10.in

Harsh’s AI Stack

aistudio
aistudio
anthropic apis
anthropic apis
cursor
cursor
gemini
gemini
langgraph
langgraph
opencode
opencode

Education

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

20185 yrs2023

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Headline

Head of AI & Engineering | IIT Kanpur

About

Software engineer with experience across government-scale identity systems (UIDAI/Aadhaar), telecom infrastructure (Exotel), and founding an AI product from scratch (AIastro.talk). IIT Kanpur graduate. Comfortable owning problems end-to-end, from backend architecture to shipping AI features to production. Currently looking for SDE2/AI Engineer opportunities where I can apply strong fundamentals in data structures, distributed systems, and applied AI.

Location

India

AI stack

aistudio

anthropic apis

cursor

gemini

langgraph

opencode

Work experience

Head of AI & Engineering at AIastro.talk, Oct 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo, Delhi, India, - Designed and shipped a full-stack AI SaaS platform solo, streaming chat and reports across 200+ routes, powered by a 100+ module AI orchestration layer with bilingual (EN/HI) intent routing. - Built a 3-provider LLM fallback system (Vercel AI Gateway, Gemini, Groq) with automatic failover and full observability for production reliability. - Developed a RAG-powered knowledge retrieval system and async pipeline generating structured PDF reports via LLM, with guardrails to block off-topic requests. - Launched usage-based billing and payments (Razorpay) with tiered access and full audit logging.

Career transition at AIastro.talk, Sep 2025 - Oct 2025 · 2 mos, After a period of deliberation, I took the leap to build my own product and company from the ground up.

Member of Technical Staff - 1 at Exotel Techcom, Feb 2025 - Aug 2025 · 7 mos, Gurugram, Haryana, India, - Cut new-engineer onboarding time 96% (4 weeks → 1 day) by unifying 11 microservices into one Dockerized dev/QA environment - Scaled real-time AI call classification from 5K to 10K+ calls/minute while cutting latency 40% and infra cost 15% - Rebuilt the disaster-recovery pipeline (PostgreSQL, AWS Athena, Elasticsearch), reducing recovery time from 5 days to 30 minutes

Software Engineer at Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), Jul 2023 - Jan 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, - Built a fraud-detection microservice processing 1,500+ biometric scans/minute, optimizing MySQL indexing for sub-50ms latency - Designed a fault-tolerant, HSM-encrypted biometric pipeline (AWS S3 + Redis) with 80%+ test coverage - Automated 85% of biometric deduplication using an event-driven Kafka architecture for real-time fraud detection - Built an Operator Intervention Portal (React) visualizing 10+ KPIs, cutting manual workload 75%

Teaching Assistant at Coding Ninjas, Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 · 5 mos, - Taught a C++ Data Structures & Algorithms curriculum (recursion, graph theory, complexity analysis) to 16 students - Resolved 500+ technical queries through code reviews and debugging support, maintaining a 4.8/5 average rating

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Biotechnology, INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR

Public links

github: https://github.com/harxhist

har.sh10.in: https://har.sh10.in/