Harshavardhan K — The Journey

// player one · career mode · 2020 → present

Harshavardhan K.

~ $ i build

SDE-2 at JPMorgan Chase. Six years of shipping — from first open-source pull requests to resilient financial systems and the agentic AI platforms that keep them honest.

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API latency cut at Verizon
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redundant calls removed, daily

// quest log · bluk mode · latest first

A story of shipped code & memory.

Scroll to rewind the run — hop from LV 10 today back to the spawn point, one block at a time.

LV 10 · STAGE 1/10
★ RUN COMPLETE ★
spawn point reached · 2019 → 2026 · gg
J.P.Morgan
now playing · LV 10Dec 2025 — Present · Hyderabad

Resilient systems × agentic AI · JPMorgan Chase

Owning highly critical services in risk management — built from scratch with retry + exponential backoff, idempotency, and blue-green deploys. On the AI side: an LLM agent-skills platform, an MCP interception layer with telemetry and prompt-injection guardrails, and orchestration that runs parallel agents across tasks.

  • risk management
  • MCP guardrails
  • LLM skills platform
  • DB → S3 → analytics
  • Snowflake
  • Terraform · ECS · EMR
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Level 9Jul 2025 — Dec 2025 · Hyderabad

Scale & GenAI · Verizon

SDE-2 on internal platforms: cut API latency 70% and eliminated 26,000+ redundant internal calls a day, migrated legacy APIs to REST microservices, and built Copilot prompt pipelines that generate documentation and UML straight from source.

  • 70% latency cut
  • 26K+ calls/day removed
  • microservices
  • GenAI tooling
ADP
Level 8Oct 2023 — Jul 2025 · Hyderabad

The backend pivot · ADP

Two roles in 22 months: Spring Boot REST services with React front-ends, role-based auth across every endpoint, an offer-letter platform from design to delivery — then platform-wide REST and web-service integrations.

  • Java · Spring Boot
  • Hibernate
  • RBAC
  • Oracle · MongoDB · Redis
  • Docker · CI/CD
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Level 7Feb 2023 — Apr 2023 · Remote

Leading a build · Byteridge

Led a team building a mentorship platform: twin Flutter apps, a Node.js REST server on Google APIs with an automated meeting scheduler, and DB indexing made 80% faster.

  • team lead
  • Node.js
  • Google APIs
  • 80% faster indexing
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Level 6Oct 2022 — Dec 2022 · Bengaluru

Fintech reps · Fello

First taste of fintech: secured payment screens against screenshots on Android and iOS via method channels, and shipped Apxor-driven personalised nudges — a 30% UX improvement.

  • fintech
  • mobile security
  • Apxor nudges
  • localization
Level 5Feb 2022 — Apr 2022 · Hyderabad

First touch of AWS · Stealth Startup

Auth flows on AWS Amplify + Cognito, S3 image caching to cut load latency, and a rebuild of 80% of the app's UI to production standard — the cloud chapter opens.

  • AWS Amplify
  • Cognito
  • S3
  • React
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Level 42021 — 2022 · TKR College

GDSC Lead · Google Developer Student Clubs

Selected by Google to lead the campus developer community — organising, mentoring, and learning that engineering scales further when you bring people along.

  • leadership
  • community
  • mentoring
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Level 3Mar 2021 — May 2021 · Hyderabad

First production app · Kahaniya

Shipped a production Flutter app end to end: full front-end with REST integration via Dio, Google Maps radius search, internationalisation, and dark mode.

  • Flutter
  • REST · Dio
  • Google Maps
  • i18n
Level 2Jun 2020 — Feb 2021 · Remote

Open-source first steps · GirlScript, HakinCodes, eduAlgo

First real pull requests: contributor on GirlScript's Uplift Project, Contributor'sHack 2020, Hacktoberfest 2020, and a frontend internship at eduAlgo — all before third year.

  • open source
  • Hacktoberfest 2020
  • frontend
  • remote collab
Level 1 · spawn point2019 — 2023 · Hyderabad

B.Tech, Computer Science · TKR College (JNTUH)

Where it compiles for the first time. Four years of CS fundamentals, an 8.2 CGPA, and the itch to build things that people actually use.

  • CS fundamentals
  • 8.2 CGPA
  • DSA
★ RUN COMPLETE ★
spawn point → LV 10 in six years · gg, thanks for scrolling

// inventory

The current loadout.

Backend & Systems

  • Java · Spring Boot
  • REST microservices
  • Retry, backoff & idempotency
  • Distributed systems
  • Data modeling · Snowflake
  • Oracle · MongoDB · Redis

Cloud & Infra

  • AWS ECS · Fargate
  • EMR · Apache Spark
  • Step Functions · S3
  • Terraform (IaC)
  • Blue-green deployments
  • CI/CD · Docker

Agentic AI

  • LLM agent-skill platforms
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Prompt-injection guardrails
  • Usage telemetry
  • Parallel agent orchestration
  • Agent-generated dashboards

// co-op mode

Systems that don't fall over.
Agents that don't go rogue.

Based in Hyderabad, building at JPMorgan Chase. Always up for a conversation about reliability, distributed systems, and agentic AI.

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