Harsh Kapadia

Software Developer

About

I am Harsh Kapadia (he/him), a Software Developer. I have a keen interest in Web Development, Computer Networking, Git and communities.

I have been enjoying learning more about computers at my current role as a Field Applications Engineer at AMD, while trying to lead a more disciplined and balanced life.

I like building projects, talking about my learnings in Tech, and writing about Git and Networking protocols like TCP, SSH, TLS and Homa.

I started Our Tech Community (OTC) four years ago and we regularly conduct events for all of us to learn more! Apart from that, I am a GitHub Campus Expert as well.

I love reading books, listening to music, watching YouTube and Bird Watching!

Feel free to get in touch with me!

View my résumé.

Experience

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc.

Field Applications Engineer

Jan 2024 - present

Austin, USA (In-person)

amd.com

Primarily working with AMD EPYC server processors.
Benchmarking systems and building internal tools to improve the productivity of the team.

Internships

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc.

Field Applications Engineering Intern

May 2023 - Aug 2023

Austin, USA (In-person)

amd.com

Built a web app to provision and manage Virtual Machines configured with debug software and scripts, user public keys, persistent storage and VNC to reduce server issue debug time by 10%, using KVM, Bash scripts, Express.js and React.js.
Benchmarked network bandwidth (iperf3), memory bandwidth (STREAM) and CPU performance (DGEMM) of servers.

NanoNet Technologies Inc.

Software Intern

Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

Remote

nanonets.com

Published two OCR and Image Classification SDKs to improve development time by 50%.
Enhanced documentation by enforcing the OpenAPI 3.1.0 standard and adding more code samples.
npm packages: OCR, Image Classification

GRT Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd.

Software Testing Intern

Dec 2019

Mumbai, India (In-person)

grtship.com

Tested their ERP software for errors and bugs.

Projects

Git Graph

A web app to visualize the graphs that Git creates to connect Commit, Tree and Blob objects internally.

Takes an existing repository to generate graph visualizations for local branches and allows highlighting specific commits.

Web app, GitHub

React.js, GitHub Pages

Performance Comparison of TCP Versions

Compared Congestion Window size responses of TCP Reno, TCP CUBIC, TCP Vegas and TCP BBR to network congestion.

Compared the fairness of two TCP versions running simultaneously on the same connection.

Report, GitHub

GENI, Shell, R

Git Internals

A PWA documenting and explaining the internals of Git.

Explains the contents of the .git directory and the connections between Commit, Tree and Blob objects.

PWA, GitHub

Asciidoctor Jet, GitHub Pages

OTC CatchUp

Created a web app for managing weekly OTC CatchUp Tech discussion sessions.

Hosts session summaries created using Asciidoctor Jet and manages session joining links using Deta Base.

Currently helping manage active Open Source contributions to the project.

Web app, GitHub

Node.js (Express.js), Asciidoctor Jet, Shell, HTML, CSS, JS, Deta

HPS Gems

A JAMstack e-Commerce CRUD web app for selling raw gemstones.

Users can add items to their cart, place orders and view their shopping history and profile.

Uses the Fetch API to connect with the PHP API and uses the Web Components API to optimize rendering products.

Also available as an Android app called HYS Gems built using React Native.

Web app, GitHub

PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JS, Heroku

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Skills

Web: React.js, Node.js (Express.js), Flask, HTML, CSS, JS
Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
Platforms: GitHub, Firebase, Heroku
Tools: Git, iperf3, Wireshark, Tcpdump, Asciidoctor Jet
Languages: JavaScript, Java, Bash, C, Python
CI/CD: GitHub Actions
Testbeds: GENI, CloudLab

Talks

Git Internals - How Does Git Work!?

YouTube, Talk details

Git Basics - The basics of Git and GitHub!

YouTube, Talk details

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Our Tech Community

Our Tech Community (OTC) is a Tech-loving open-to-all community that I started in January 2020.

We conduct regular online and in-person events for all of us to learn more from each other! We are now a community of over 500 members. We have conducted over 170 online events, talks and workshops, over four in-person meetups with more than 70 attendees each and several other collaborations. More details can be found in OTC's four year roundup.

Explore our events and join us!