Harsh is currently an undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, who is passionate about Distributed Systems, Applied Cryptography and Secure Machine Learning. He is an avid open-source contributor and is inspired by the idea of developing useful open-source software for the masses to use. Other than software development, his interest lies in economics, philosophy, and psychology. He was a Jenkins Google Summer of Code (GSoC) contributor in 2023, participating in the GitLab Plugin Modernization project. He started his journey of contributing to Jenkins in February 2023 and got hooked since. He is also a maintainer of GitLab Plugin. Learn more about him from his personal website.