Who is Harshit Agarwal?

Harshit Agarwal is a Fullstack Software Architect and AI Researcher based in India. He acts as Founding Engineer & Lead SDE at platforms like Famcare, shoppin', and endorphind, specializing in high-throughput backend services and deep learning systems.

What technologies does Harshit Agarwal use?

Harshit specializes in Python, FastAPI, Go, C/C++, Java, React/Next.js, Flutter, PyTorch, AWS (SageMaker, EKS, EC2), Kubernetes, Rancher, Docker, PostgreSQL, Redis, and WebSockets.

What research has Harshit published?

Harshit has published research on transformer-based NLP architectures for software vulnerability exploit prediction in NVD (AIP / Springer), and has submitted gait analysis/Parkinson's Freezing of Gait prediction research to Health and Technology.

What open-source projects has Harshit built?

Harshit is the author of gaitSetPy (a Python package for high-throughput gait time-series preprocessing and modeling) and has built custom generative video nodes for ComfyUI workflows.

NISER Internship Retrospective

Went back to NISER last week. My first real internship, May to October 2024, at SMLAB.

May 2024
joined SMLAB

→

phase 1
(my internship)

→

Oct 2024
wrapped up

Fig. 1 — the internship window. The lab's "phase 2" now picks up where phase 1 left off, with new interns from my college.

I've made it a quiet ritual — sneak in, visit the meditation center, the physics lounge, breathe that air. The couch from the physics lounge is gone now. That stung a little.

NISER campus building with a large bougainvillea bush in pink bloom along the road

NISER library shelf of differential geometry textbooks

This visit was different though. New interns from my college working in the same lab. Got introduced to everyone — new PhDs, postdocs, master students. All the ongoing projects, the legacy ones and the novel ones. The phase 2 of what I was once a phase 1 of.

It was beautiful.

The controversial take: the least impact NISER had on me was academic. The most was the culture and the memories. Getting placed in my home state felt like a consolation prize at first. It became the catapult.

Taught me to live away from home. To work, to chill, to enjoy solitary. Hours every night in the physics lounge until the 3am guard came around — and I'd head to the night canteen for one last bite before the lab, or the hilltop, just sitting in the dark.

Empty NISER night canteen with a red flower vase on a steel table, warm lighting — The night canteen. Empty most nights, but never closed when you needed it.

Two campus cats sitting on a stool, with smaller inset photos of a kitten and a peacock — The other permanent residents of NISER.

A lot has changed about that place from when I was there. But I think everyone feels that way — about the things of now, seen through the lens of what they once were.

I get asked a lot about how to land that first internship. Honestly? Be nonchalant. We're young, nobody takes us seriously yet — and that's a good thing. I mass mailed, got in, and it shaped me.

Standing desk setup with a laptop and external monitor running code, captioned 'fuggin love standing desks' — The setup most of phase 1 happened at.

Just send the email.