Harsh Shah · Software Engineer

Building what matters.

I work as a senior engineer, consultant, or technical partner for teams building products that depend on solid backend, data, and AI systems.

Work

Where I've been.

A walk through the past few years — the teams, the places, and the kinds of problems I was lucky enough to work on.

  1. 2025 — Now

    Founder & Engineer BizBot

    An AI platform running end-to-end customer ops for service businesses — SMS, WhatsApp, and web chat conversations, calendar sync, and Google Business Profile automation. Owning product, GTM, and engineering top to bottom.

    • AI Agents
    • FastAPI
    • Next.js
    • Twilio
    • PostgreSQL
    Remote
  2. 2024 — 2025

    Senior Software Engineer Partners Capital

    Serverless ingestion on Azure Functions and secure SFTP adapters processing 25K+ records monthly, plus an LLM-driven document summarisation service hitting 99.7% extraction accuracy — supporting teams analysing $80B+ in assets.

    • Azure
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • LLMs
    Boston · MA
  3. 2023 — 2024

    Senior Software Developer mDesign (acquired by iDesign)

    Marketplace integrations across Amazon, Walmart, and P2P for 25,000+ products — modernised batch jobs into an event-driven Kafka + Redis architecture, lifting retrieval speed 40% and trimming infra costs.

    • AWS
    • Kafka
    • Redis
    • Laravel
    • MySQL
    • TypeScript
    Remote
  4. 2022 — 2023

    Software Engineer II Friendemic (acquired by Kenect)

    Led a monolith-to-microservices migration coordinating cross-team requirements to support 1M+ social media posts annually, improving system performance by 33% with minimal downtime.

    • Microservices
    • Python
    • Go
    • AWS
    Remote
  5. 2019 — 2022

    Software Developer System Soft Technologies

    GraphQL APIs with Redis caching, CI/CD on BuddyWorks and Jenkins, infrastructure as code.

    • GraphQL
    • PHP
    • Jenkins
    • MySQL
    Tampa · FL
  6. 2017 — 2018

    Graduate Research Assistant SUNY Polytechnic

    Python data-processing pipeline for large-dataset analysis, improving throughput by twelve per cent.

    • Python
    • Pandas
    • Research
    Utica · NY

Projects

Things I've built.

A company I'm building and a couple of side projects I keep coming back to — public, live, and open to feedback.

01 / 03
company · ai · service businesses

BizBot

An AI growth platform for service businesses — bookings, messages, and reviews on autopilot, across SMS, WhatsApp, and web chat. Live in ten minutes.

Channels
3
Verticals
11+
Live in
10m
Autopilot
02 / 03
fintech · research terminal

DiamondHands

A research terminal for long-term investors — backtest portfolios across fifty years of US stocks, ETFs, and crypto, then paper-trade the conviction before risking real money.

History
50y
Modes
3
Version
v0.1
Projection
03 / 03
side project · for developers

FlexFingers

A 90-second typing warmup for developers — context-aware drills across code, prose, and markdown that find your weak keys, bigrams, and fingers, and rebuild from there.

Warmup
90s
Contexts
3
Stage
alpha
Cadence

About

A little about me.

I'm Harsh - a software engineer based in Boston with over six years of building software that performs, scales and earns trust.

I've always been drawn to how things work beneath the surface. That's shaped how I build systems: deliberately, with attention to what happens at scale, under load and over time.

I care about the shape of a well-designed service, the feel of a fast interface and the small engineering decisions that compound over time into products people actually find useful. Whether I'm joining a team, advising on architecture, or helping unblock a project, I like solving problems with clear thinking, strong execution and attention to detail.

If you're building something interesting or just want to trade notes, say hello.

Skills

What I know
& what I love.

Tools of the trade

Backend & Systems

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • Go
  • FastAPI
  • Django
  • REST
  • GraphQL
  • gRPC

AI & Automation

  • LLMs
  • OpenClaw
  • Agents
  • Cursor
  • Claude Code

Infrastructure & Cloud

  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

Data & Storage

  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • MongoDB
  • MySQL
  • Snowflake

IoT & Smart Systems

  • Home Assistant
  • Zigbee
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Matter

Off the clock

Music

  • Chord progressions
  • Rock and Metal
  • Deep house & techno
  • Jazz

The Cosmos

  • Astrophysics
  • Orbital mechanics
  • Space tech
  • Cosmology

Narrative Audio & Video

  • Long-form podcasts
  • True crime
  • Documentaries
  • Wildlife

Staying Active

  • Lifting
  • Sports
  • Running
  • Hiking

Culinary Experiments

  • New recipes
  • Kitchen science
  • Baking

Capabilities

How I can help.

Outside of full-time work, I take on the occasional project where I can be genuinely useful.

01

Engineering

Designing and shipping backend systems — APIs, data pipelines, and infrastructure that make products fast and reliable.

  • API & system design
  • Distributed services
  • Performance & scaling
02

Consulting

A second pair of eyes on architecture, hiring, or a stuck technical problem. Small teams, honest feedback, quick turnaround.

  • Architecture review
  • Technical due diligence
  • Roadmap shaping
03

Mentorship

Working 1:1 with engineers navigating transitions, interviews, or the leap from mid-level to senior. Unhurried, specific, useful.

  • Career & interview prep
  • Code reviews
  • Growth planning

Resume

The short version.

A quick summary if you're in a hurry — and the full PDF for when you're not.

Education

  • M.S. Computer Science

    SUNY Polytechnic Institute · Utica, NY

    2017 – 2019

  • Bachelors in Computer Applications

    Ahmedabad University · Ahmedabad, India

    2013 – 2017

Highlights

  • Founder & Engineer

    BizBot · 2025–Now

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Partners Capital · 2024–2025

  • Senior Software Developer

    mDesign (iDesign) · 2023–2024

  • Software Engineer II

    Friendemic (Kenect) · 2022–2023

  • Software Developer

    System Soft Technologies · 2019–2022

Specialties

  • Backend & Systems

    Python, TypeScript, Go, FastAPI, Django

  • AI & Automation

    OpenClaw, LLMs, Agentic workflows

  • Data & Cloud

    AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kafka, Redis

  • Product & Delivery

    Solutions, Pre-Sales, SLA Governance, Roadmapping

Download full resume PDF · updated May 2026

Contact

Say hello —
I'd love to hear from you.

Whether you’re hiring for an engineering team, stuck on an architecture problem, or just want to trade podcast recommendations—say hello. I usually get back to everyone within a day or two.

Local time, Boston

One more thing · for the curious

How fast can you type?

A small detour before you go. Pick a difficulty, type the sentence, and see where you rank in the world.

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WPM0
Accuracy100%
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Click the sentence · Timer starts on your first keystroke