About

I’m Harish Vishwanath — an engineering leader with a deep-seated passion for both people and technology. I’ve spent two decades building systems, leading engineering organizations, and learning something new every single day.

This site is my corner of the internet — a place for writing, projects, photographs, and the occasional philosophical musing.

Who are you?

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Dreamer. Explorer. Builder. Infinite Learner. Student of Life.

I am but a force, a ball of energy — here, by chance. My spirit is free, and each moment that passes, I work towards being free. I am a product of this earth and everything in the universe, and back there I go when my time comes.

What is your philosophy?

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I believe in love, life, courage, and myself.

For me, life is a ticket to watch the greatest show on earth — and I enjoy the show (mostly). Most of the time, life is black and white to me, unlike the different shades of gray that it appears to be. Pleasure or pain, success or failure — it doesn’t matter, because I see them neither as good nor bad. They all merge into what is called the present, and anything in the present is, well — just in the present.

For me, no matter what — “Life is Beautiful!” — always, as it is intended to be, as it is, and as it will be. I have my dark moments at times, but eventually I succeed in being me.

What is your thing?

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Learning, discovering, and exploring new things gives me the greatest pleasure. I love to take a problem and solve it in my own way.

I am interested in almost everything, but there are a few things I keep coming back to — building distributed systems, leading engineering teams, and understanding how things work at the deepest level. I can scale up and scale down, excel operating at the big picture level, and relish getting down to the finer details.

What is not your thing?

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I am a perfectionist (not to the extent of a maniac) and hate to see mediocrity.

And oh, I hate shopping in the conventional sense of the word.

What do you do?

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I lead engineering teams that build and scale distributed systems and cloud infrastructure. My journey has taken me across diverse technical landscapes — from mainframes and embedded systems to cloud computing and security at scale. I thrive on empowering engineers, fostering technical excellence, and collaboratively tackling complex challenges to deliver innovative solutions.

Beyond the day job, I love computers and am useful with most things related to them. I solve (and sometimes create) problems by writing software — for business, for pleasure, and for no reason at all.

If not a programmer, what would you have liked to do?

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I would have become a librarian. Imagine being with books all the time, soaking in all the knowledge of the world, in an enlightening silence! Awesomeness.

What is your one final wish?

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I want to watch Earth from space. That’s a trip I wouldn’t mind not returning from.

Find me online:

• LinkedIn
• GitHub