Harsh Sharma

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DISC Type : DS

BA4 - Platform Engineering Developer (AI Incubator) at Barclays

India

Overview

Harsh is an AI Platform Engineer at Barclays, specializing in building production-ready AI/ML platforms on AWS. With a B. Tech from SRM IST Chennai and a strong foundation in Applied NLP, he is passionate about developing AI-enabled cloud solutions and contributing to AI research.

Outside of his professional role, Harsh is an avid hackathon participant and enjoys mentoring junior developers. He is passionate about sharing knowledge by hosting deep learning webinars and writing technical blogs about his research and experiences, such as his Mitacs internship in Canada.

He recently won a corporate hackathon at Barclays by building a GenAI-driven solution to automate downtime reporting, replacing a legacy manual process for an enterprise team.

Personality Overview

Decisive But Calm

Long-Term Thinker

Dynamic But Sincere

They exhibit a rare combination of being result-oriented but patient at the same time.  Reading between the lines and seeing beyond your words comes naturally to them. They are very professional in their approach and can weigh multiple perspectives together.

Topics They Care About

AI/ML on AWS
His current role involves building scalable, secure, and production-ready AI/ML platforms and event-driven CI/CD architectures on AWS for rapid experimentation and deployment.
Generative AI Agents
He is building AI Agents as a platform capability at Barclays and recently won a hackathon for creating a GenAI-driven downtime reporting solution.
Applied NLP
His background includes NLP research internships, publications, and certifications. He has worked on code translation with RoBERTa and enhancing models for CV parsers.

Media Appearances

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Work History

2-2025
BA4 - Platform Engineering Developer (AI Incubator) at Barclays
7-2023 - 2-2025
BA3 Grad Analyst at Barclays
12-2022 - 7-2023
Junior Data Scientist at Kalido
6-2022 - 9-2022
MITACS GRI - Summer Intern (SDE-NLP) at The University of British Columbia
7-2021 - 10-2021
Deep Learning (NLP) Intern at NeuralSpace

Education

2019 - 2023
Bachelor of Technology - BTech from SRM IST Chennai
2017 - 2019
CBSE from Mahaveer Public School - Jaipur

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Insights For Selling To Harsh

During A Call Or A Meeting

DO's

  • Let them know of potential risks but suggest mitigation methods alongside
  • You can spend time on BANT (or other qualification methodology) but keep it to the point
  • Focus on the results that your product produces, expect some strategic questions in return

DONT's

  • Don't focus too much on mutual contacts or bother about other stakeholders, focus on them
  • Avoid putting conscious effort into relationship-building
  • Don't get into pricing discussions early on, steer conversation towards proven results

When Cold Calling

When Writing An Email

While Negotiating & Closing

    The secret to closing fast with Harsh is

  • Strong proof of impact and their conviction will matter the most, but they wouldn't want to act unilaterally either
  • Will you ever get a clear answer from Harsh

  • They will say no if they are not convinced but you will have to prompt them.

Insights For Deal Planning

    How fast (or slow) will Harsh move?

  • They will want to understand things well but can move fast once they have a clear picture.
  • Can Harsh take some risk or not?

  • They have good risk tolerance but are likely to think it through once or twice.

You And Harsh

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