Harish Mulchandani

About Harish Mulchandani

Technical Lead with hands-on experience designing and implementing scalable, high-volume distributed systems. Proven expertise in building robust REST APIs and real-time search solutions (Solr) at Apple, handling millions of requests.Strong focus on streaming data platforms using Apache Kafka and Spark, with a deep understanding of event-driven architecture and performance optimization.Skilled in leading cross-functional initiatives, mentoring junior engineers, and driving technical excellence across teams. Passionate about building resilient systems that scale. Skills - Java, Python, Spring, REST, Spark, Kafka, Solr, Oracle, Mongo

Experience

1. Lead Engineer Software Architect

   Apple

   Dec 2015 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Technical and people lead for a global customer support search platform, serving Applecustomers worldwide- Architected and scaled a Solr-based search system indexing 20+ TB of data acrossmultiple collections- Designed Spark + Kafka ingestion pipelines processing 200M+ records per day,ensuring data freshness and reliability- Built and operated high-throughput REST APIs handling millions of requests per day,backed by Oracle and MongoDB- Designed and implemented an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server to standardize andsecure access to internal APIs, enabling-> Consistent context exposure for LLM-based systems-> Reusable API integration for multiple AI agents->Faster onboarding of new AI-driven use cases- Built API-backed agents on top of the MCP platform to automate customer support taskand search workflows- Led onboarding of core services to AWS EKS, improving scalability, deploymentconsistency, and operational resilience- Managed and mentored backend, platform, and ML engineers across geographies,owning planning, execution, and technical quality- Partnered with ML teams using PySpark-based models to improve repair handlingefficiency and operational insights

Education

• Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram

  Science, Math

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computers

Skills

• Mysql
• Jdbc
• Log4j
• Soa
• Git
• Jquery
• Web Services
• Maven
• Javascript
• Wsdl
• Html
• Jaxp
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)
• Spring
• Axis
• Mongodb
• Agile Methodologies
• Jsp
• Xml
• Rest
• Struts
• Unix
• Xerces
• Ejb
• Jersey
• Soap
• Websphere
• Pl/Sql
• Oracle
• Clearcase
• Eclipse
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Xalan
• Spring Framework
• Ant
• Postgresql
• Servlets
• Java
• Restful Webservices
• Jaxb