PGDM (General Management) · Batch 2026-27
Harshal Manish
I'm an MBA student at XLRI Jamshedpur with 4.5 years of work experience. I began my career at PwC, as an Associate Technical Consultant for a large-scale IT Services client in Bangalore. I was part of high-impact projects, earned a promotion to Senior Associate, and gained experience mentoring teams. In the past 4.5 years, I've strived to learn by solving complex problems with innovation and to be an active contributor in teams, as I believe great things are achieved only when people work together.
Work experience
57 months in total
- pwc57 months
Career highlights
Senior Associate - PwC
- Designed the core of a ML training tool built for client consumption by creating 20+ REST APIs from scratch that allow the user to perform actions like registering, training, and even monitoring ML Models
- Trained fresh graduates while spearheading a codebase refactoring on a critical LLM platform to make it more reliable and mitigate the chances of any application malfunction
- Resolved gaps within the alerting module of the application that was responsible for missing alerts, thereby increasing the probability of undetected issues with a financial data-handling application
Associate, PwC
- Drove end-to-end software delivery across multiple client-facing projects, encompassing feature development, unit and integration testing, and peer code reviews, ensuring high code quality and reliable application performance for end users
- Delivered a 20% reduction in Databricks job runtime by implementing shared cluster usage, directly addressing a business priority around operational efficiency and infrastructure cost optimization
- Expanded platform capabilities by delivering a new SFTP data ingestion feature, enabling users to seamlessly read financial data and unblocking a critical workflow on the client-facing platform
Achievements
- Achieved second place in Code Asylums Hackathon
- Won Junior Golf Tournament - Beldih
