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I'm Harshith, a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native and data-driven applications across FinTech and enterprise domains. I focus on Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, and I enjoy solving distributed-systems challenges with microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines. I’ve shipped AI-enabled platforms, strengthened security with OAuth2, JWT, and RBAC, and I love collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decisions. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, contributing to open-source, and sharing knowledge through documentation and code reviews.…I'm Harshith, a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native and data-driven applications across FinTech and enterprise domains. I focus on Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, and I enjoy solving distributed-systems challenges with microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines. I’ve shipped AI-enabled platforms, strengthened security with OAuth2, JWT, and RBAC, and I love collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decisions. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, contributing to open-source, and sharing knowledge through documentation and code reviews.

Rapolu Harshith

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I'm Harshith, a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native and data-driven applications across FinTech and enterprise domains. I focus on Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, and I enjoy solving distributed-systems challenges with microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines. I’ve shipped AI-enabled platforms, strengthened security with OAuth2, JWT, and RBAC, and I love collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decisions. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, contributing to open-source, and sharing knowledge through documentation and code reviews.…I'm Harshith, a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native and data-driven applications across FinTech and enterprise domains. I focus on Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, and I enjoy solving distributed-systems challenges with microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines. I’ve shipped AI-enabled platforms, strengthened security with OAuth2, JWT, and RBAC, and I love collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decisions. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, contributing to open-source, and sharing knowledge through documentation and code reviews.

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I’m Harshith, a backend engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable cloud-native and data-driven applications across FinTech and enterprise domains. I focus on Python, FastAPI, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS, and I enjoy solving distributed-systems challenges with microservices, event-driven architectures, and real-time data pipelines.

I’ve shipped AI-enabled platforms, strengthened security with OAuth2, JWT, and RBAC, and I love collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive data-informed decisions. Outside of work, I enjoy exploring new technologies, contributing to open-source, and sharing knowledge through documentation and code reviews.

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Backend Engineer at Intuit

June 1, 2024 - Present

Built an AI-driven financial analytics platform by developing scalable Python backend services, enabling real-time visibility into revenue, expenses, and compliance risks while improving platform scalability and business decision-making. Redesigned transaction processing workflows using Python, FastAPI, Kafka, and gRPC to enable high-throughput, low-latency processing with improved fault tolerance and seamless inter-service communication. Engineered event-driven data pipelines using Python and Kafka to process real-time financial events, improving system reliability by 8% and enabling proactive anomaly detection. Optimized revenue analytics and compliance REST APIs by redesigning endpoints and database interactions, reducing response times by 22% and improving downstream service performance. Modernized data persistence using PostgreSQL and AWS Aurora, optimizing indexing and query execution to improve retrieval performance by 12% while ensuring durable storage for financial records. St

Backend Engineer at Zoho Corporation

June 1, 2020 - April 1, 2023

Designed and built a cloud-native event streaming platform using Python, FastAPI, and distributed microservices, enabling millions of real-time events to be processed across enterprise applications. Implemented asynchronous event pipelines using Kafka, Celery, and Redis Streams, improving throughput by 15%, reducing latency, and enabling reliable backpressure handling. Architected fault-tolerant backend services with circuit breakers, retries, service discovery, and load balancing, supporting 10,000+ concurrent WebSocket connections while maintaining high availability. Developed a multi-tenant observability platform using PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Python ETL pipelines, and AKS, providing scalable log analytics and secure tenant isolation. Implemented enterprise identity management with JWT, OAuth2, RBAC, and Azure Active Directory, strengthening access control across distributed services. Built real-time analytics dashboards using React, REST APIs, and WebSockets, improving operationa