My name is Harsh Rana

I'm interested in world-changing applications of Software Engineering and Data Science.

About Me

I graduated from Worcester Polytechnic Institute with a B.S. in Computer Science, and a Data Science minor. Since then, I've worked at

Stride Funding

Senior Software Engineer

Oct '22 - Present

  • Mentoring a team of engineers, while continuing to be a high performing IC
  • Architecting business-critical initiatives and leading implementation efforts

Fullstack Software Engineer

Feb '22 - Oct '22

  • Building the core platform - A full-stack multi-tenant application
  • Tech stack: Docker, React, Node, NextJs, Typescript, Python, Django, Airflow, SQL, GCP

Software Engineer

ButcherBox

Oct '20 - Feb '22

  • Built an automated data quality pipeline to increase operating efficiency
  • Implemented a fullstack application to optimize customer support workflow
  • Tech stack: Docker, Python, SQL, Go, Airflow, React, NextJs, Typescript, Laravel

Big Data Engineer

Bank of America

Jul '19 - Oct '20

  • Building near real-time and batch data ETL pipelines for public applications
  • Designing backend infrastructures for data volumes of upto 300GB/day
  • Tech stack: Hadoop, map-reduce, Hive, Sqoop, Spark and Oozie



I'm particularly passionate about two main things: leveraging data to solve complex problems and building impactful, clean & efficient software.

Projects

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Love at First Swipe

A Machine Learning project which predicts whether two people would match on a date

Python
Numpy
Scikit-Learn
Pandas
Matplotlib
Javascript
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J-Stroke: Basketball Analytics

A data visualization dashboard to analyze and compare basketball players

Python
Data Visualization
Web Scraping
D3.js
Dashboard
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2016 Federal Budget Redesigned

Redesign of the official 2016 federal budget breakdown into a multiview dashboard

Python
Data Visualization
Data Wrangling
D3.js
Analytics
WPI Global Project Map photo

WPI Global Projects Map

A web application which highlights WPI's project centers across the world

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP
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Human Perception Experiment

Recreation of Cleveland and McGill's experiment about human perception in data visualization

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
Python
R
D3.js
Statistics
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Workout Buddy

A website to help people create and keep track of workouts

HTML
CSS
JavaScript
NodeJS
SQLite

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