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Bengaluru, India · Senior Engineer · Agentic AI Explorer

MS Harsha

I build systems that scale · I think in code and cosmos · I explore what's next
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Not just an engineer who codes — a systems thinker obsessed with what software becomes when it starts acting on its own.

Chapter one

Who I am when I'm not shipping code.

I write code the same way I think — in systems.

But I've also spent too many nights staring at the sky, wondering if the universe is just a really well-architected distributed system with no documentation.

That curiosity — about scale, emergence, and things that shouldn't be possible but are — is what drives me both at work and outside of it.

MTech in Data Science from BITS Pilani. Currently at Roku building e-commerce infrastructure and chasing agentic AI. Pursuing an MBA in AI for Business on the side. Always reading. Occasionally travelling. Perpetually curious.

CurrentlyRoku, Bengaluru
StudyingMBA · AI for Business
ExploringAgentic AI systems
EducationMTech Data Science, BITS Pilani
CertifiedAWS Solutions Architect ☁ Associate
Core stackJava · Python · Spring Boot · Kafka · Flink
Seven years. Four companies. One trajectory — always moving toward harder problems and bigger questions.

Chapter two

The arc.

I started as an intern writing APIs at a fast-paced startup and grew into someone who designs the systems those APIs live inside. Each move was deliberate. Always toward more complexity, more ownership, and more interesting problems.

Jan 2019 → Dec 2021
GigSky · Bangalore
Where it all started.

Intern to Senior Engineer, all at one place. APIs, legacy migration, multithreaded performance work — the full foundation.

API DevelopmentStreaming MigrationSQL OptimisationMultithreading
Dec 2021 → Feb 2023
Amagi Corporation · Bangalore
Streaming data at scale.

Data engineering at a cloud broadcast platform. Kafka, Flink, and real-time pipelines became a lens for every large-scale system problem.

Apache KafkaApache FlinkData EngineeringStreaming
Feb 2023 → Nov 2023
i2Scale Technologies · Bengaluru
Backend engineering at scale.

Microservices architecture, system design, and fast iteration — a year's worth of instincts in ten months.

MicroservicesSystem DesignJava
Nov 2023 → Present
Roku Inc. · Bengaluru
Leading e-commerce, exploring what's next.

End-to-end ownership of the e-commerce platform. Spring Boot, Spring Reactive, React — and asking what parts can start making decisions on their own.

Spring BootSpring ReactiveReactAgentic AISystem Design

Chapter three

What I reach for.

Tools aren't the story — they're how the story gets told. These are the ones I've learned to trust under pressure.

Backend Core
Data & Streaming
AI / ML Layer
Backend Core
Javadaily
Pythondaily
Spring Bootfluent
Spring Reactivefluent
Hibernatefluent
Microservicesfluent
REST APIsdaily
Reactworking
Data & Streaming
Apache Kafkafluent
Apache Flinkfluent
SQLdaily
Dockerdaily
Kubernetesworking
Apache Pulsarcertified
Gitdaily
AI / ML Layer
Machine Learningfluent
NLPfluent
Gen AIexploring
Agentic Systemsexploring
Data Sciencefluent
Between the deployments and the deep work, there's a person who needs to get out and go somewhere.

Chapter four

Places.

Travel is how I reset. Every place has left a different kind of residue — a way of thinking, a perspective impossible to get from a screen.

Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka
Tea hills and ocean.
Bengaluru
Bengaluru
Where it all started.
Chicago
Chicago
The Windy City.
Dubai
Dubai
A skyline from the future.
Golden Gate
San Francisco
The bridge and beyond.
Yosemite
Yosemite
Nature at scale.
Maldives
Maldives
Yes, it's as good as it looks.
And then there's the part that has nothing to do with work — we are literally made of stardust. The iron in your blood was forged in the heart of a dying star. That's not poetry, that's physics.

Chapter five

What keeps me
up at night.

Astrophysics taught me that scale is relative and the universe doesn't care about your SLA.

I've been fascinated by astrophysics for as long as I've been interested in computers. There's something deeply satisfying about systems that work at cosmological scale — no central authority, no single point of failure, just physics doing its thing across billions of light years.

I think that's secretly why distributed systems appeal to me. And why agentic AI feels like the next frontier worth chasing — it's the question of how you build something that acts intelligently without being told exactly what to do. Turns out the universe figured that one out a long time ago.


Chapter six

Say
hi.

I'm always up for a good conversation — about systems, AI, astrophysics, or anything that shouldn't exist yet but will.

Software, astrophysics, evolution, history — when these worlds collide, the debris eventually settles into something new.

That's what you've been watching in the background. Two galaxies — my interests — spiralling into each other, scattering stars, and slowly forming one.

That's me.