About
I'm Harshit Sharma, a software engineer based in India.
In sixth class, my school had two extra periods every Thursday called WorkX, short for work experience. Everyone picked an activity: making things from waste, DIY, gardening, basketball, Scout and Guides, web development. I wanted Scout and Guides because that's where all my friends were going. By the time my turn came, the slots were full.
I picked web development instead. I already loved computers. I had an HP laptop at home that I mostly used for games, and I had once opened it up to upgrade the RAM myself.
In one of the first classes, we wrote a few lines of code and a web page showed up in the browser. Being able to make something and share it with anyone in the world was incredible to me. It took me a while to understand how hosting worked, but I kept at it.
I kept building after that. I made websites for family and friends first, and later found freelance work through Reddit and word of mouth. What started as a school period slowly turned into real work.
In my second year of college, I ran five technical workshop sessions, teaching students how software talks to hardware and how projects go from a laptop to the internet. In one session, we built a car rear sensor with an Arduino and an HC-SR04 ultrasonic sensor and streamed its distance readings into a Node.js server. Teaching the thing I had stumbled into as a kid was a lot of fun.
These days I work as a Product Engineer at YBM, where I build MatchroomOS, a community matchmaking platform used by more than 6,000 people, and Zeenovo, a healthcare platform used by 50+ pharmacies. I like building products end to end, staying close to both the product decisions and the implementation details.
The desk I work from was built with money from those freelance projects. Outside of work, I spend a lot of time keeping up with AI. I have my own frontend bench, test new models as they show up, and usually end up telling my friends which ones are actually worth paying attention to.
I also play piano, which helps me slow down. Outside of that, I love hiking and driving.
