An engineer. A builder. A curious mind.Independent portfolio / 2026

Hi, I'm Hardik Sharma.

Complex
systems.
Real impact.

I build distributed systems and AI products. Currently at Microsoft, turning complex technology into experiences that feel simple.

System study No. 001 3D / Interactive
The invisible, made visible.A small study in how I think and build.
Built with
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Not just code.

Outcomes.

4,000+

Datacenters secured

VMware / Fleet remediation

8h <20m

Reserved-instance exchanges

Harness / Execution time

1,500+

Engineers on AlgoRush

Independent / Built solo

01 / Selected work

Ideas are good.
Shipped is better.

A few things I've taken from
“what if” to the real world.

There's a longer story.Robots, experiments, and a few late-night ideas.

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02 / Experience

Big challenges.
Good company.

Six years of building things
people and platforms depend on.

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6+ years3 companies
MicrosoftCurrentlySoftware Engineer 210/2025 — Present

Making AI more personal, and more useful.

Frontier Foundry / Hyderabad, India

  • Built an AI personalisation platform for Bing and OneDrive that adapts wallpapers to season, time of day and contextual signals, making the surface feel responsive to the person using it rather than static.
  • Developed a real-time voice assistant that infers user intent, executes tasks across services and returns conversational responses at low latency.
HarnessSenior Software Engineer09/2024 — 06/2025

Eight hours of work. Done in under twenty minutes.

Cloud Cost Management / Bangalore, India

  • Led design and implementation of a seed-based Reserved Instance optimisation workflow that automatically provisions, expands and rebalances commitments while preserving expiration timelines and maximising coverage.
  • Built a transaction execution accelerator for RI exchanges that took end-to-end execution from eight hours to under twenty minutes, through workflow orchestration, resiliency work and parallelised processing.
  • Integrated commitment and cluster optimisation engines to prioritise underutilised Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, reducing wasted cloud spend.
  • Developed a commitment inventory platform giving customers real-time visibility into RIs and Savings Plans across cloud accounts.
Before 8 hoursAfter <20 minutes
VMwareMember of Technical Staff 307/2020 — 08/2024

Infrastructure built for 4,000+ datacenters.

VMware Cloud Platform / Bangalore, India

  • Architected and delivered a vulnerability remediation platform that scanned and patched infrastructure across 4,000+ datacenters, cutting operational overhead and shortening security response times.
  • Led development of a distributed fleet execution platform for secure remote execution of automation workflows across thousands of datacenters, improving operational efficiency by over 50%.
  • Built semantic search over operational data using transformer-based models, so engineers could find insights by meaning rather than exact keyword.
  • Developed automated patch orchestration, incident escalation workflows and real-time operational dashboards.
  • Built monitoring and reporting services that automated SLA computation and health tracking across critical infrastructure, removing manual reporting entirely.
VMwareSoftware Engineering Intern01/2020 — 06/2020

Turning operational incidents into faster resolutions.

VMware Cloud Platform / Bangalore, India

  • Built an intelligent recommendation service matching operational incidents to relevant remediation scripts, cutting mean resolution time by 50%.
  • Developed a cloud-based IDE on Eclipse Che and Theia for infrastructure automation engineers to write, test and deploy scripts in one place.

03 / The person behind the code

Hardik Sharma, smiling
Hardik SharmaEngineer, not a robot.
Hyderabad, India IST

Serious about the craft.
Curious about everything.

I've always liked taking things apart.
These days, I get to build them back better.

It started with competition robots. Then cloud platforms, developer tools, and systems spanning thousands of datacenters. Now, it's AI experiences at Microsoft's Frontier Foundry.

The throughline? I care about what happens underneath: the architecture, the edge cases, the small decisions that make something feel effortless.

The full story, on paper

A working toolkit / Always evolving

Languages
JavaPythonTypeScriptSwiftSQL
Backend
Spring BootFastAPIFlaskRESTMicroservicesStackStorm
Data
PostgreSQLMongoDBElasticsearchTransformers
Cloud & infra
KubernetesDockerHelmAWSGCPGitLab CI/CD
Frontend
AngularReactHTML/CSS
Practice
AgileScrumTDDMentoring

04 / After hours

No roadmap.
Just curiosity.

Neural networks learning to fly. Rockets evolving a way around obstacles. Sometimes, the best way to understand something is to play with it.

Teach a bird to fly

05 / Along the way

A few
milestones.

From competition floors
to production systems.

2021

Exceptional Mentorship Award

VMware — for mentoring the winning team at VMware Bootcamp 2021.

2021

Spot Award

VMware — for scanning and patching the fleet during the Log4Shell response.

2021

At Our Best Award

VMware — for building the automated SLA service.

2019

Smart India Hackathon — finalist

Government of India — top 4 of 314 teams, leading a team of five with the Smart Parking System.

2018

Winner, Escalade

IIT Guwahati — first of 60 teams, wall-climbing robot.

2018

Best Innovation Award, RoboCup

Axis'18, VNIT Nagpur — among 120 teams.

2018

Third place, Meshmerize

Techfest, IIT Bombay — maze-solving robot, 314 teams.

The foundations

B.E. Computer Science & Engineering

RCOEM, Nagpur / 2016–2020 / GPA 8.86

06 / What's next?

Open to meaningful conversations

Have a good
problem?