Harshit Laddha

About Harshit Laddha

Engineering leader with 12+ years of experience building large-scale backend and data platforms across fintech and SaaS. My core strengths lie in object-oriented system design and in developing high-performance distributed systems using Java, Spring, and modern data infrastructure.Recently, my work has focused on applied AI and GenAI systems. At Adobe, I design and build AI-powered capabilities within Adobe Experience Platform, including Retrieval Augmented Generation knowledge bases and data pipelines that power real-time AI applications. This involves building high-throughput ingestion frameworks, semantic search systems, and entity linking pipelines that keep AI models grounded in fresh enterprise data.Alongside deep technical expertise, I bring leadership experience managing engineering teams and driving complex initiatives from architecture to production. I enjoy solving hard platform problems at the intersection of distributed systems, data engineering, and AI, and building systems that scale to millions of users and massive datasets.

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Adobe

   Jul 2024 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Architected and launched a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) Knowledge Base within Adobe Experience Platform to power real-time AI Assistants and agent pipelines, enabling context-rich LLM interactions at scale.• Owned the Entity Linking service: designed semantic search and reranking pipelines using vector embeddings to map natural language mentions to Knowledge Base entities, boosting AI Assistant\'s accuracy to over 90%.• Designed and implemented a near-real-time data ingestion framework, reducing data latency by 96% and significantly improving knowledge freshness for LLM context injection.• Built a zero-touch, metadata-driven entity onboarding framework, accelerating new data-domain integration by 10X. • Optimised Databricks workloads and redesigned batch processing pipelines, cutting compute costs by approximately $1M annually while preserving SLAs. • Led GA roll-out across sandboxes, ensuring reliability, scalability, and smooth cross-team integration. • Shaped data & ML platform roadmap and mentored engineers, applying 2 years of technical leadership to increase delivery velocity and engineering quality.• Used GenAI tools like Cursor & Github Co pilot to enhance developer productivity

Education

• Birla Shiksha Kendra

  High School, Computer Science

  2000 — 2010

• Arya college Of Engineering & IT

  Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science Engineering

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Php
• Teaching Workshops
• Microsoft Office
• C
• Programming
• Windows
• Algorithms
• Peoplesoft
• Manual Testing
• Socket Programming
• Ethical Hacker
• Mysql
• Red Hat Linux
• Network Security
• Perl
• Html
• Teaching
• Siebel
• Core Java
• Photoshop
• Java
• Ruby
• Penetration Testing
• Metasploit
• Sql
• Restful Webservices
• Linux
• Css
• Ruby on Rails
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Javascript
• C++
• System Administration
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Servlets
• Html5
• Jquery
• Alogorithms
• Software Development
• Javaserver Pages (Jsp)