Harshit Halwan

Led model-evaluation work at the frontier of code generation and LLM post-training. Promoted in six months to lead a six-person team.

• Promoted within six months to lead a six-person team, reducing rework from 20% to below 10%.
• Integrated an LLM-as-a-judge workflow that reduced review time by more than 50%.
• Evaluated production-scale code-generation systems across HTML, React, Java, and Svelte.

Founding engineer for an intelligent trademark-search platform — React/Next.js interface and research-driven search.

• Built a trademark similarity-search platform and its React/Next.js interface.
• First real exposure to research — figuring out what to search for and how to search effectively.

Freelance backend for Palspay, an expense-splitting application designed around shared money and group coordination.

• Built a Python and MongoDB backend supporting groups, shared balances, group wallets, and in-app settlements.
• Integrated Razorpay to enable money transfers from the application itself.

Modernized an enterprise hospitality platform: SQL Server to PostgreSQL, ASP.NET Web Forms to Java microservices and a Next.js frontend.

• Migrated SQL Server to PostgreSQL with RabbitMQ synchronization, achieving high database availability.
• Replaced ASP.NET Web Forms with Java microservices and a Next.js/React frontend.
• Promoted from intern while modernizing an enterprise hospitality platform used by hundreds of thousands of people.

Postgraduate study in artificial intelligence and machine learning.

• Postgraduate study in artificial intelligence and machine learning.
• Revisited the mathematics behind the intelligent systems I was helping build in practice.

Built a computer-science foundation in the Department of Computer Science.

• Studied at the Department of Computer Science.
• Covered Compiler Design, Operating Systems, and Computer Networks.

B.Sc. in Physics — built a mathematical foundation and learned to think analytically.

• Started with physics and built a strong mathematical foundation.
• Loved the electronics lab — breadboards, oscilloscopes, and solving problems from first principles.