About

Harpratap Singh Layal is a skilled Platform Engineer with over 6 years of experience in the software development industry. He is currently working at Mercari, Inc. as a Software Engineer in the Microservices Platform Team. Harpratap is a developer who has a keen interest in working on backends and platforms that run software. He has experience in working on Distributed Systems like Kubernetes, Mesos, and Marathon. Harpratap has worked with various companies in the past, including Rakuten, where he worked as a Software Engineer in the Cloud Platform Department - Container Orchestration Group. During his time at Rakuten, he created a highly scalable load testing generator on Kubernetes using GoLang, Vue.js, and JMeter. He was also responsible for the production quality Service Mesh using Istio and Envoy. Harpratap led the initiative to implement a company-wide Distributed Tracing solution using Jaeger, Open Telemetry, and Cassandra. He also extended Kubernetes to implement Rakuten's specific platform logic using GoLang, KubeBuilder, and Meta-Controller. In addition to his work at Rakuten, Harpratap also worked as an Application Engineer in the EC Core Technology Department - RWASP Group. Here, he worked on a distributed internal platform for an E-Commerce company for web apps in a docker runtime based on Mesos and Marathon, using Python 3, Vue.js, and Docker. He also worked on Service Mesh for this platform using GoLang, Nginx, and Openresty. Harpratap worked on a Redis platform to provide a KV store to their developers using Redis, Python, and Javascript. He also created a CLI tool for developers to operate the platform using GoLang and a load test tool based on Distributed JMeter engine to generate traffic from inside the network and also from outside the internet using GoLang, Javascript, Kubernetes, GCP, and JMeter. Harpratap holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Computer Engineering from Mukesh Patel School of Technology and Management Engineering, which he completed in 2017. He also holds a High School degree in Computer Science from D.G Ruparel and another High School degree from St. Mary's High School, Mira Road. Harpratap's technical skills include Software Engineering, Kubernetes, Golang, Javascript, Microservices, test, Cassandra, Redis, Docker, VueJS, dotNET, GCP, and Web.