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Harshita Kanal

Senior Software Engineer at HackerRank, built AI-powered products from scratch. I love building beautiful interfaces, AI-first experiences and ensuring high-quality engineering practices.

Experience

HackerRank

Feb 2025Present

Senior Software Engineer

Owned and Developed from scratch, a new product line - AI Interviews in React, Next.js and Nest.js. Built real-time voice agents using WebRTC. Migrated a legacy repository to Typescript from Flow types (1500+ files).

HackerRank

July 2023Jan 2025

Software Development Engineer - II

Added support for Code Repository questions on the platform, laid the foundation of Next-gen hiring product which eventually became the OKR #1 for the company.

HackerRank

Jun 2022July 2023

Software Development Engineer

Added support for Database Schema type Questions. Integrated Terminal and Console for running test cases in HackerRank Interviews.

HackerRank

Jan 2022Jun 2022

Software Engineer Intern

Developed web components in React.js with end-to-end test coverage. Translated design wireframes into high-quality reusable code.

Economize Inc.

June 2021Dec 2021

Software Engineer Intern

Built pixel-perfect, responsive web interfaces in JavaScript and Vue.js. Increased application test coverage from 20% to 80%. Developed cloud functions in Go. Built a dashboard using Nuxt.js & Tailwind CSS. Migrated the main website code to Vue.js and Strapi headless CMS.

CNCF - Buildpacks

Aug 2021Oct 2021

Open Source Developer

Worked on web redesign of features section. Analyzed several build tools including Paketo Buildpacks, Dockerfiles, Kaniko, Source2Image, Jib.

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