Harpreet Gurpreet Brar

Overview

Based in Chandigarh. I work on iOS apps at Notch AI. Moved 66% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 36 a week to 3. Before that: Cisco and Mahindra Group. Chess on lunch breaks.

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Experience

1. Principal Engineer

   Apr 2023 - Present
   Notch AI · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Led or co-led 26 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
   • Sit on 4 boards.
2. Senior iOS Engineer

   Jan 2021 - Apr 2023
   Cisco · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 547ms to 100ms.
3. Senior iOS Engineer

   Mar 2017 - Nov 2020
   Mahindra Group · 3 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Cut p99 latency on the iOS services from 866ms to 143ms.
   • Led the migration of 23 services to Core Data.
4. iOS Engineer

   Mar 2015 - Mar 2017
   Meesho · 2 yr · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Moved 88% of iOS traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
   • Wrote the UIKit service that now handles 14 million requests a day.
5. Staff iOS Engineer

   Feb 2013 - Mar 2015
   Boston Consulting Group · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Chandigarh, India
   • Led the migration of 72 services to Combine.

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Education

1. Jadavpur University

   B.E., Electronics and Communication
   1999 - 2003