Harshaan Chugh

Bachelor of Science, Cornell University

I work on distributed software and scalable infrastructure, with a growing focus on ML systems.

Previously, I worked on Android Automotive OS at Google. Now I focus on distributed-memory parallelism and high-performance computing within Cornell's ALPS Lab.

Harshaan standing beside the colorful Google G sculpture

Industry Experience

Google Software Engineer Intern

May – Aug 2026

Developed task-level driver-distraction enforcement within Android Automotive OS: a paradigm change from display-scoped restrictions. Built executor-driven public APIs for the platform to allow apps to respond to distinct restrictions within a single display.

Android Platform · Binder IPC · AIDL · Java / Kotlin

Entropy Laboratories Software Engineer Intern

Jun – Aug 2025

Migrated a cloud streaming pipeline to an on-premises TAK Server. Built an air-gapped integration and a JSON-to-Cursor-on-Target bridge, enabling connections to 1,000+ devices.

Python · MariaDB · TAK Server

Paint It Forward Software Engineer Intern

Apr – Jul 2025

Built the nonprofit's website and a volunteer-hours portal for 20+ people. Automated infrastructure provisioning and deployments.

AWS · Next.js / React · AWS CDK / SST

Research & Academic Leadership

Cornell ALPS Lab HPC Researcher

Aug 2026 – present

Optimizing genome self-alignment algorithms with distributed-memory parallelism within the Algorithms for Large-Scale Parallel Systems Lab.

C / C++ · MPI · CUDA

Cornell Data Science Distributed Systems Engineer

Sep 2025 – present

Led an eight-person team building a LAN-first distributed downloader. Built GitDistributed, a versioning system with primary-backup replication, failover, and multi-client support.

Java · C++ · Spring Boot · gRPC · Distributed Systems

Cornell University Teaching Assistant

Jan – Dec 2025

Analysis of Algorithms (CS 4820/5820). Held weekly office hours, mentoring students through algorithm design, debugging, and test cases.

Discrete Mathematics (CS 2800). Led weekly discussion sections for 20+ students in a 400-student course and co-hosted a LaTeX workshop.

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Java
C++
C
Kotlin
Python
SQL
TypeScript
Golang
OCaml

Frameworks & Libraries

Android Platform
CUDA
CUDA
gRPC
gRPC
Redis
Spring
Linux
Kubernetes
Docker

AWS Certifications

Solutions Architect – Associate · Data Engineer – Associate · Cloud Practitioner – Foundational