# Harsh Parekh

> Enthusiastic to work with technology | Senior SWE @ Ikigai | MSE-CIS @ Penn

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/harshparekh

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Ikigai
Jan 2025 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer II @ Ikigai
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Ikigai
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Head Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | United States
- Managed a team TAs, distributed workloads and smoothed out collaboration
- Planned coursework, labs, scheduling, ...
- Created and managed course website: https://software-analysis-class.org/
- Held office hours and recitation
- Setup course assignment docker environments
- Created automations for assignment submission generation and student-side testing
- Setup autograder for each lab in the course and created an open source library for gradescope-based autograders: https://git.parekh.page/autograder-utils

### Software Engineer @ Ikigai
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | United States
- Built out infrastructure for processing user subscriptions and billing
- Sped-up proprietary ai technology using cache efficient memory layout
- Setup RBAC

### Teaching Assistant @ University of Pennsylvania
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

### Research Assistant @ Rutgers University - Camden
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | United States
Research in the field of Approximation algorithms.

### Research Assistant @ University of Michigan
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, Michigan


## Education
### Master of Science in Engineering in Computer and Information Science in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Computer Science
Rutgers University - Camden

### Higher Secondary Education in Computer Science
Mithibai College of Arts Chauhan Institute of Science and A.J. College of Commerce and Economics


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harsh-parekh-8b3327103

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Last updated: 2026-03-31