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Harshita Mangla

Software Engineer at Apparel Group | Ex: Yahoo, GSoC (PSF), Economize | 3+ years experience in full-stack development

Faridabad

4+ years of work experience

Apparel Group
Oct 202511 mosPresent

Took end-to-end ownership of Beauty Assistant Engine, a skincare consultation platform for in-store staff across Apparel Group brands, leading full-stack development and system design from competitive research, REST API architecture and DB schema design to UAT and production deployment. Engineered the core recommendation engine using a weighted, concern-driven algorithm; leveraged LLMs to enrich and standardize a sparse product catalogue; and implemented role-based auth with Microsoft SSO, PIN management, and staff session tracking across store manager, staff, and admin roles. Delivered critical features for a retail workforce scheduling platform deployed across 500+ UAE stores, including a multi-criteria shift-matching algorithm with nationality compliance rules; and resolved an N+1 bottleneck in the forecasting API, achieving 87% reduction in response time. Built end-to-end operational tooling, including mall-level analytics dashboards, AWS S3–based document workflows, and SES-powered email automation, adopted by regional and mall managers to improve managerial visibility and cut manual reporting by 6+hrs/week.
Economize, Inc.
Oct 20232 yrs 1 moOct 2025

Redesigned the GCP project onboarding flow eliminating the service account requirement, cutting customer onboarding time by 50% and reducing support friction at the most common drop-off point in the funnel. Built a multi-cloud cost alerting system integrated with Microsoft Teams and email, proactively surfacing cost anomalies and savings opportunities; added an Activity panel giving users full audit visibility into triggered alerts and reducing undetected cost overruns. Built multi-region cloud spend analysis reports and a virtual tagging system that unified AWS, GCP, and Azure resources under a single attribution layer enabling cost comparisons across cloud providers without requiring changes to existing cloud infrastructure.
Yahoo
Feb 20234 mosMay 2023

Bengaluru

Collaborated with the Consumer Experience team to build the App Logging Framework for Yahoo, enabling faster troubleshooting of production issues for Yahoo apps and SDKs, and improving developer productivity, while actively contributing across the Software Development Life Cycle. Designed and built the front-end architecture from the ground up, building API integration layers that surfaced real-time log data to internal engineering teams.
Google Summer of Code
Mar 20229 mosNov 2022

economize.cloud
Nov 20216 mosApr 2022

Worked on revamping the complete landing page, and main website and added the resources section. Added features like marking the important GCP recommendations, multiple project onboarding, and date-range selection support for graphs. Integrated Google One Tap login with Auth0 and revamped the ghost blog template.
GitHub
@mharshita
LeetCode
@mharshita

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Education

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST), Hisar

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and engineering

Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST), Hisar

20194 yrs2023

class XII

Modern Vidya Niketan School, sector 17

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Headline

Software Engineer at Apparel Group | Ex: Yahoo, GSoC (PSF), Economize | 3+ years experience in full-stack development

About

I am a software engineer based in India with a strong foundation in Computer Science, specializing in algorithms, data structures, and full-stack web development. I have industry experience working at companies like Apparel Group, Yahoo and Economize, as well as contributing to open-source programs such as Google Summer of Code. I enjoy building scalable web applications. I have contributed to various open-source programs and have been recognized with prestigious scholarships, including the Harvard WeCode WeAmplify Scholarship and the Linux Foundation Women in Open Source Award. With a strong focus on continuous learning, collaboration, and problem-solving, I’m always excited to work on impactful projects and explore new opportunities in software development. Please feel free to reach out to me through LinkedIn or manglaharshita@gmail.com if you're interested in connecting or discussing potential opportunities in software development.

Location

Faridabad

AI stack

anthropic apis

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cursor

langchain

lovable

Work experience

Software Engineer at Apparel Group, Oct 2025 - Present · 11 mos, Took end-to-end ownership of Beauty Assistant Engine, a skincare consultation platform for in-store staff across Apparel Group brands, leading full-stack development and system design from competitive research, REST API architecture and DB schema design to UAT and production deployment. Engineered the core recommendation engine using a weighted, concern-driven algorithm; leveraged LLMs to enrich and standardize a sparse product catalogue; and implemented role-based auth with Microsoft SSO, PIN management, and staff session tracking across store manager, staff, and admin roles. Delivered critical features for a retail workforce scheduling platform deployed across 500+ UAE stores, including a multi-criteria shift-matching algorithm with nationality compliance rules; and resolved an N+1 bottleneck in the forecasting API, achieving 87% reduction in response time. Built end-to-end operational tooling, including mall-level analytics dashboards, AWS S3–based document workflows, and SES-powered email automation, adopted by regional and mall managers to improve managerial visibility and cut manual reporting by 6+hrs/week.

Software Engineer at Economize, Inc., Oct 2023 - Oct 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo, Redesigned the GCP project onboarding flow eliminating the service account requirement, cutting customer onboarding time by 50% and reducing support friction at the most common drop-off point in the funnel. Built a multi-cloud cost alerting system integrated with Microsoft Teams and email, proactively surfacing cost anomalies and savings opportunities; added an Activity panel giving users full audit visibility into triggered alerts and reducing undetected cost overruns. Built multi-region cloud spend analysis reports and a virtual tagging system that unified AWS, GCP, and Azure resources under a single attribution layer enabling cost comparisons across cloud providers without requiring changes to existing cloud infrastructure.

Software Engineering Intern at Yahoo, Feb 2023 - May 2023 · 4 mos, Bengaluru, Collaborated with the Consumer Experience team to build the App Logging Framework for Yahoo, enabling faster troubleshooting of production issues for Yahoo apps and SDKs, and improving developer productivity, while actively contributing across the Software Development Life Cycle. Designed and built the front-end architecture from the ground up, building API integration layers that surfaced real-time log data to internal engineering teams.

Mentor and Project Lead (frontend) @Python Software Foundation at Google Summer of Code, Mar 2022 - Nov 2022 · 9 mos

Software Engineering Intern at economize.cloud, Nov 2021 - Apr 2022 · 6 mos, Worked on revamping the complete landing page, and main website and added the resources section. Added features like marking the important GCP recommendations, multiple project onboarding, and date-range selection support for graphs. Integrated Google One Tap login with Auth0 and revamped the ghost blog template.

Education

Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Computer Science and engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology (GJUST), Hisar

class XII, Modern Vidya Niketan School, sector 17

Public links

github: https://github.com/mharshita

leetcode: https://leetcode.com/mharshita