Harsh Kapadia
Software Engineer
Harsh Kapadia
About
I am Harsh Kapadia (he/him), a Software Engineer currently based in Austin, TX, USA. I am interested in the Web, exploring the internals of tools and technologies, and communities.
I have been enjoying building software tools and learning more about servers at my current role at AMD, while trying to lead a more disciplined and balanced life.
I like building projects, and talking and writing about my learnings.
I started Our Tech Community (OTC) in 2020 and we regularly conduct events for all of us to learn more.
I love books, music, YouTube and Bird Watching.
Feel free to get in touch with me!
Experience
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc.
Field Applications Engineer
Jan 2024 - present
Austin, TX, USA (In-person)
- Building software tools to support debug tools for AMD EPYC server processors
- Building a web app to provision, pool and manage Virtual Machines configured with user-requested debug software and scripts, public keys, persistent storage and VNC to reduce server issue debug time, using KVM, Bash scripts, Express.js and React.js
- Automating benchmark installation, execution and evaluation to improve the productivity of the team
Internships
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Inc.
Field Applications Engineering Intern
May 2023 - Aug 2023
Austin, TX, USA (In-person)
- Built a proof-of-concept web app to provision and manage Virtual Machines configured with user public keys, persistent storage and VNC to reduce server issue debug time, using KVM, Bash scripts, Express.js and React.js
- Benchmarked the network bandwidth (iperf3), memory bandwidth (STREAM) and CPU performance (DGEMM) of servers
NanoNet Technologies Inc.
Software Intern
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
Remote
- Published two OCR and Image Classification SDKs to improve development time by 50%
- Enhanced documentation by enforcing the OpenAPI 3.1.0 standard and adding situational code samples
- npm packages: OCR, Image Classification
GRT Global Logistics Pvt. Ltd.
Software Testing Intern
Dec 2019
Mumbai, India (In-person)
- Tested in-house ERP software for correctness, errors and bugs
Projects
Parse ELF
A 64-bit Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) file parser in C.
ELF is the primary file format of executable files on Linux.
This utility parses and prints the ELF (File) Header, the Section Headers, the Segment (Program) Headers and the dynamic dependencies in any 64-bit ELF file.
Used as a part of my talk on ELF files.
C
MAC and IP Routing
A demonstration to illustrate how IP and MAC addresses work together to route packets.
Analyzing the MAC and IP packets in a network of clients and routers to understand how a machine can reach the other.
Used as a part of my talk on MAC and IP routing.
Docker, Bash
Git Internals
A PWA documenting and explaining the internals of Git.
Explains the contents of the
.git directory and the connections
between Commit, Tree and Blob objects.
Asciidoctor Jet, GitHub Pages
Skills
- Languages: JavaScript, Bash, C, Java, Python
- Web: React.js, Node.js (Express.js), Flask, HTML, CSS, JS
- Databases: MySQL, MongoDB
- Platforms: GitHub, Firebase
- Tools: Git
Talks
Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) Files on Linux
Git Internals - How Does Git Work!?
Writings
Some written work from my various documentation sites:
Our Tech Community
Our Tech Community (OTC) is a Tech-loving open-to-all community that I started in January 2020. We are now a community of over 500 members.
We conduct regular online and in-person events for all of us to learn more from each other! We have conducted over 200 online events, several talks and workshops, over four in-person meetups with more than 70 attendees each and several other collaborations. More details can be found in OTC's four year roundup.
Explore our events and join us!
OTC CatchUp
Weekly open-to-all online sessions to discuss various technologies and showcase projects. We have held over 200 sessions. Join in!
OTC MeetUp
In-person meet ups to hold technical talks, meet new people and have good conversations!
