Portrait of Harshit Gindra

Harshit Gindra

Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services

I build highly available distributed systems and generative AI platforms that operate at global scale. A decade of system design across cloud, web, mobile, and desktop, with a bias toward reliable infrastructure, sharp developer tooling, and growing the engineers around me.

AWS regions
28
Bedrock customers
5K+
Users served
200K+
Engineers mentored
12

Where I have worked

At Amazon Web Services since 2021, building systems that run globally, preceded by technical leadership in logistics and enterprise software.

Software Engineer — Amazon Simple Email Service

Amazon Web Services · Bellevue, WA

  • Building and operating high-throughput email sending infrastructure on one of the largest managed email platforms in the world

Tech Lead / Software Engineer — Bedrock Capacity Management

Amazon Web Services · Bellevue, WA

  • Tech lead for a team of 4 engineers on distributed capacity orchestration, managing 30K+ instances across 28 AWS regions
  • Built a Bash and Rust operational tooling suite for batch capacity operations, cutting execution time from 40 minutes to 5, an 87% reduction in manual toil
  • Automated CloudWatch alarm triage and operational runbooks, halving mean time to resolution from 3 hours to 1.5
  • Shipped high-availability workflow engines covering capacity ingestion, rebalancing, and release lifecycle end to end
  • Diagnosed and fixed race conditions and lock contention in concurrent distributed workflows
  • Drove infrastructure-as-code with CDK/TypeScript and full CI/CD pipelines for capacity management services

Software Engineer — Amazon Bedrock

Amazon Web Services · Bellevue, WA

  • Built the Amazon Bedrock Flows front end from zero to GA with React Flow, letting 5K+ customers compose generative AI workflows visually, growing 15% month over month
  • Engineered APIs serving 30K+ daily workflow executions across foundation models, RAG pipelines, prompt management, knowledge bases, and agents
  • Architected traversal algorithms for parallel execution paths, including for-loop and do-while constructs
  • Shipped asynchronous execution so long-running AI workflows could complete outside a request cycle
  • Led model, profile, and router integration testing within a 15-engineer team, securing day-zero launch support
  • Served as security guardian, running design reviews to find and close vulnerabilities before launch

Software Engineer — Amazon WorkDocs

Amazon Web Services · Seattle, WA

  • Owned client applications across 5 platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android) serving 200K+ users
  • Spearheaded WorkDocs Drive for Apple Silicon Macs, lifting sync throughput from 1 to 16 files per minute, a 16x gain
  • Architected an automated phased rollout system that averted 2+ major deployment incidents and accelerated release cadence
  • Led an AWS-compliant telemetry service that surfaced critical bugs across every client platform
  • Launched browser-based bulk download for the web client with no increase in operational cost

Technical Lead Developer

LSC Communications · Chicago, IL

  • Architected the service-oriented platform for the Logistics Business Group, covering freight optimization, order management, and end-to-end shipment tracking
  • Mentored 12 engineers (4 onshore, 8 offshore) on SOLID principles and test-driven development
  • Delivered event-driven systems with SignalR, MQTT, and RabbitMQ for real-time operational data
  • Used Azure microservices to build scalable, resilient distributed systems

.NET Developer

RR Donnelley · Chicago, IL

  • Built production applications across ASP.NET MVC, Web API, .NET Core, and Azure Cloud Services
  • Applied Repository, Command, State, and Factory patterns while working directly with stakeholders to turn requirements into designs

What I build on my own time

Shipped side projects across iOS and backend systems. Cards without a link are still in private development ahead of release.

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Offcut

2D and 1D cut list optimizer for woodworkers. Seven shape types, void recovery, priority packing, and configurable kerf, wrapped in a one-time-purchase iOS app.

Swift SwiftUI Bin packing iOS
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MindKnot

iOS riddle game with room-code party mode. Peer-to-peer play on the same network, CloudKit-backed room discovery for remote players, and an LLM-generated riddle bank.

SwiftUI GRDB CloudKit MultipeerConnectivity
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FactOrFake

iOS trivia game where you judge statements as fact or fake. Daily Challenge with streaks, solo quest modes, and local multiplayer over peer-to-peer connectivity.

SwiftUI GRDB MultipeerConnectivity Bedrock

PodcastDrive

Turns arbitrary audio and video sources into a private podcast feed. LLM-based ad detection and removal, silence-aware splicing, S3 hosting, and scheduled unattended runs.

Python Bedrock FFmpeg AWS

What I work with

Cloud & AI

AWS (Bedrock, CDK, Lambda, EKS, EC2, S3, SQS/SNS, Step Functions, CloudWatch), Azure, LLMs, RAG

Infrastructure

Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, CDK/TypeScript, CI/CD, observability, high availability

Languages

C#, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Rust, Python, Swift, SQL, Bash

Frameworks

.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, React, Node.js, SwiftUI

Messaging & Systems

SignalR, MQTT, RabbitMQ, distributed systems, microservices, event-driven architecture

Databases

SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, SQLite

Leadership

System design, technical leadership, mentoring, Agile/Scrum, security design reviews

At Amazon

50+ technical interviews conducted, 30+ security design reviews across multiple teams

Education & certifications

Education

M.S. Management Information Systems

Illinois State University · Normal, IL

2014 – 2015

B.E. Electronics & Telecommunications

K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering · Mumbai, India

2010 – 2013

Certifications