Harsh Agarwal

About Harsh Agarwal

I am have hands-on experience in a vast array of technologies. Some of the technologies that I am proficient in are:⇨ Databases: Oracle 11g, MS-SQL Server 2008, Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ⇨ Programming languages: Java, C#, C++ and Python⇨ Web technologies: JSP/Servlets, PHP and AJAX⇨ Software frameworks: Spring.net, J2EE, OSGi⇨ Computing grid technologies: Oracle\'s Coherence, Apache\'s Hadoop, Apache\'s Cassandra and Pivotal\'s GemFire⇨ Data interchange formats like XML, JSON, BSON⇨ Messaging systems like Tibco EMS, IBM Websphere MQ (MQ Series);⇨ Logging frameworks like log4j, log4net;⇨ Application monitoring systems like Geneos ActiveConsole, Nagios;⇨ Software engineering technologies like Atlassian’s JIRA, TeamCity, Confluence, SVN, GitHub⇨ Operating systems like Linux, Unix, MS WindowsI have excelled in roles that involve:⇨ Business and technical requirements gathering⇨ Business analysis⇨ Technical design⇨ Enterprise-level systems architecture⇨ Business process design and implementation⇨ Outsourcing & offshore personnel management⇨ Implementing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and driving quality control and quality assurance standardsPlease connect with me if you are interested in discussing capital markets and financial services, healthcare technology or education technologies.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager, Fulfillment Optimization (Fo) Supply Chain Optimization Technology (Scot)

   Amazon

   Mar 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Managing the growth and career satisfaction of a 2-pizza team of 5 hardworking and dedicated engineers.⇨ Established a 3 year vision for the team and a roadmap to get there; iterating over the roadmap every quarter.⇨ Established weekly operational excellence review, bi-weekly Kanban review, monthly retro and \"show-and-tell\", and a quarterly town hall. ⇨ Established Away Team process.⇨ Managed the replacement of a legacy C++ application that reactively computes inventory for the website with a AWS Fargate hosted Java application. ⇨ Supporting a S-team goal to keep the website latency neutral by prioritizing investment in new APIs that scale logarithmically with the supply chain network.⇨ Supporting a transformative project that creates a dichotomy between supply used for fulfillment and supply used for the website, unlocking multi-million dollars worth of entitlement hidden away in the supply chain.

Education

• Northeastern University

  Masters of Science, Computer Systems Engineering

  2002 — 2004

• Cochin University of Science and Technology

  Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Personnel Management
• C#
• .net
• Technical Design
• Enterprise Architecture
• C++
• Spring
• Sybase
• Spring Framework
• Python
• Client Services
• Project Management
• Databases
• Requirements Gathering
• Java
• New Business Development