Harish Navnit

CV

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Year #7

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I know a football team jersey, for someone who isn’t an ardent follower of the sport, is an underwhelming gift to receive. Not like you were seeking or indeed expecting a gift to begin with anyway.

But ofcourse, the 5th day of June is a special one for me. Six years ago, my life changed forever.

As we enter the seventh year of having known one another, I couldn’t simply let it pass by without acknowledging the importance and gratitude I feel towards you.

Though underwhelming to you, the Manchester United #7 shirt is as iconic a symbol as there is. It’s a hallmark of excellence and greatness.

I’m inspired by your endeavour towards excellence. I’m certain that you’re destined for greatness and I hope to do whatever is within my capacity to help you on this journey.

Thanks for everything Appu. This means more.

– ❤️

Conference & Summits

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📜 Presentations

Convergent applications using Kirigami UI [slides]

🏢 FOSSASIA summit, 2018, Lifelong learning institute, Singapore

Modern day Makefile generators [slides]

🏢 conf.kde.in, 2017, IIT Guwahati, India
🏢 WikiToLearn conf, 2017, LNMIIT, Jaipur, India

🍻 Sprints & Meetups

KDE developers sprint

KDE Sprint at CERN - Plasma team gets physical

KDE Randa Meetings - Bringing KDE applications to new platforms

Testimonials

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“Harish is self motivated and a good communicator. It was a pleasure working with him.”

– Ruth Haller, Co-Founder / CEO Anapi

“Harish is always eager to learn, hardworking and trustworthy. I’ve enjoyed working together with him.”

– Kenny Shen, Co-Founder / CTO Anapi

“Harish’s main strength is his unending curiosity and relentless pursuit to learn new topics, even beyond his areas of expertise. He is definitely one of the brightest individuals I have mentored so far.”

– Sai Vikneshwar, PhD , Software Engineer, Amazon

“Harish is a great guy to work with. We worked on challenging problems during our time at Spectral Insights. He was always very professional in his approach.

His technical knowledge and programming acumen contributed towards the timely delivery of features. His contribution towards open source community is impressive as well. I would love the opportunity to work with him again.”

– Nikhil Raj, Software Engineer, Microsoft

“Harish was my co-worker and mentor when I was at Anapi. This was my first software engineering role. He is easy to work with and very patient with new engineers.

He provided me with valuable guidance and feedback with regards to software engineering skills, placing emphasis on solving problems and keeping things simple.

It was delightful to work with him.”

– Noel Kwan, Software Engineer, Holmusk

Work

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About

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👋 Hey!

I’m Harish. My work is largely centered around,

💻 Software engineering

I’m a software engineer by profession and my work experience ranges from developing cross-platform desktop applications, end to end automation workflows and building scalable API’s and backend services.

I’m passionate about developer productivity and love building developer tooling and automation. More recently, I’ve shifted my focus towards Cybersecurity & AI after completing my Master’s in 2024.

Check out some of my projects on Github and leave any feedback you may have.

🚀 Early stage startups

I started out as an integration engineer at Spectral Insights (acquired by nference Inc) when the team was < 20 in size.

I was also the first engineering hire at Anapi and helped build Anapi’s digital insurance API from the ground-up during my time there. I was directly reporting to the CTO and worked closely with the product management throughout.

Lastly, I was part of the integrations team at Dialpad where I built strategic integrations to help expand Dialpad’s app marketplace . I also drove efforts to improve the developer productivity for integrations team members and external vendors by packaging SDK’s, migrating CI workflows to Github Actions and automating beta release processes via the same, to mention a few.

🔒 Cybersecurity

I graduated with a Master’s in Cybersecurity & Design from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) in 2024. I’m interested in developing defensive security solutions to improve SDLC workflows and implement the shift-left paradigm.

I gained first-hand experience of building a security product at ColorTokens, where I buil the asset discovery and real-time monitoring services for XShield, an enterprise micro-segmentation platform.

📂 Open source software

I’ve worked on projects of the KDE community such as Kopete , Plasma Mediacenter and Plasma Public Transport as part of the Google Summer of Code program in 2015 & 2016, while some of my recent work is accessible publicly on my Github profile.

I also organized the first ever conf.kde.in to take place in south India in 2015, after having organized a DebUtsav the previous year, which featured on the Debian newsletter .

I’ve also presented my work at various national and international conferences in the past. Head over to the talks page for more.

Blog

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