# Harsh Trivedi

> Harsh Trivedi is a San Francisco-based founding engineer at Mercor whose career at the company began with a four-month software development internship in 2022 and advanced through software engineer and principal engineer roles. His public work history connects him to Mercor's hiring dashboard, internal CRM, cloud operations, infrastructure, security, AI interviewer and automated vetting pipeline. A Marwadi University computer science graduate, he has described his aim as building scalable, accessible products, and in June 2026 joined an industry panel about deploying AI agents in enterprises.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Mercor
- **Organizations:** Mercor, Real IT Solutions Pune
- **Education:** Bachelor of Computer Applications in Computer Science, Marwadi University, Commerce, S. N. Kansagra School
- **Known for:** Progressed through four Mercor engineering roles from software developer intern to founding engineer between January 2022 and April 2024., Helped build Mercor's hiring dashboard, internal CRM tools, AI-powered interview system, coding platform and vetting dashboard., Reached the top 20 in the national Hack4Bengal hackathon at Sister Nivedita University in May 2022.

## Career timeline

- **2020** — Published LinkedIn walkthroughs for TryHackMe exercises covering Nmap, web scanning, Tmux, Blue and Volatility.
- **2021-2022** — Worked as a full-stack developer at Real IT Solutions Pune on a Spring Boot and Angular billing application, microservices utilities and authentication projects.
- **2022** — Joined Mercor as a software developer intern and made an Electron.js and AWS tool for uploading static websites.
- **2022-2023** — Advanced to software engineer, building a hiring dashboard, internal CRM tools and cloud operations across frontend and backend systems.
- **2023-2024** — Served as principal engineer, leading a development team and managing deployments, database infrastructure and pipeline architecture while working on Mercor's AI interviewer and automated vetting pipeline.
- **2024-present** — Became a founding engineer at Mercor with a stated focus on infrastructure and security.
- **2026** — Appeared on a Forward Deployed panel about building AI agents at enterprise scale alongside leaders from Sierra, Turing and Fin.

## Achievements

- Progressed through four Mercor engineering roles from software developer intern to founding engineer between January 2022 and April 2024.
- Helped build Mercor's hiring dashboard, internal CRM tools, AI-powered interview system, coding platform and vetting dashboard.
- Reached the top 20 in the national Hack4Bengal hackathon at Sister Nivedita University in May 2022.
- Led work spanning frontend and backend deployments, database infrastructure, pipeline architecture, infrastructure and security.
- Built early projects including Blendmon, News Fox, an employee-management full-stack application, a Spring JPA boilerplate and a WhatsApp bot.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Joined a Forward Deployed panel titled “AI Agents in the Enterprise” with representatives from Sierra, Turing and Fin; the video was published on June 23, 2026.
- **2024-04** — Moved from principal engineer to founding engineer at Mercor, with responsibility for infrastructure and security.

## Links

- Website: https://www.mercor.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harsh-trivedi-ba0752144

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Last updated: 2026-09-27