Harshita K.

About Harshita K.

Engineer at the intersection of large-scale distributed systems, IoT data intelligence, and ML-driven optimization.At Qualcomm, I’m building the backend and data foundations of the Qualcomm Aware IoT Platform—from high-volume telemetry pipelines (AWS Glue, Kafka, SNS, S3) to event-driven microservices, developer-facing APIs, and subscription automation. I also run our internal ML reading group, focusing on bridging state-of-the-art research with practical system design.Before this, I spent 2.5 years at Amazon Prime Video driving Adaptive Bitrate (ABR) innovation for millions of viewers worldwide. My work cut startup latency by 50%, improved QoS by 20%, strengthened streaming resilience. I designed distributed pub-sub metadata systems, migrated workflows to ECS Fargate, and elevated observability across playback services.I hold an M.S. in Machine Learning & Data Science from UC San Diego and have a 2023 Springer Nature ML publication.My current interests include efficient inference, and ML-augmented system architecture.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc

   Jan 2024 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Senior Engineer focused on building reliable, high‑scale backend systemsSpecialize in transforming massive device‑telemetry streams into actionable analyticsExperienced with Kafka, Avro, and cloud‑native data‑pipeline toolingPassionate about distributed‑systems challenges, performance debugging, and low‑latency processingRegularly optimize platform reliability and analytics accuracy through load testing and system tuningLead the Paper Reading Club to foster cross‑team collaboration and tech‑learning cultureLove working on anything involving real‑time events, scalable data systems, and platform resilience

Education

• Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra

  Bachelor's degree, Information Technology

  2013 — 2017

• UC San Diego

  Master of Science - MS, Machine Learning and Data Science

  2019 — 2021

Skills

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Office
• English
• Public Speaking
• C++
• Social Media
• Teamwork
• Team Management
• Leadership
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