Harish Ranganathan

Hello, I’m Harish Ranganathan — a staff/principal-level software engineer and systems architect based in Bangalore, India, with over 10+ years of experience designing, building, and owning complex software systems end-to-end.

I currently work as a Senior Technical Lead and Solutions Architect at 114 AI Innovation, a defense and space technology company operating in India. I have been a long-term technical owner of SpaceWise, an on-prem, air-gapped satellite ISR analytics platform used for mission planning, analysis, and decision support.

My work spans system architecture, backend and data engineering, deterministic computation pipelines, visualization layers, deployment, and long-term operational reliability. I design systems for environments where correctness, auditability, and traceability matter more than novelty or raw performance.

Prior to this, I worked at Fields of View, an interdisciplinary research organization, where I served as a Researcher, Full-Stack Developer, and eventually Head of Technical Infrastructure. I led the design and implementation of multiple research platforms at the intersection of public policy, economics, mobility, energy, and governance.

This included building serious games, simulations, and analytical tools for policymakers and researchers, such as UNESCO-MGIEP funded educational games and large-scale simulations developed in collaboration with academic and government institutions.

I have also collaborated with artists and filmmakers, including building the interactive web platform for Paromita Vohra’s poetic installation A Love Latika, where technology served as an expressive medium rather than a product.

I am language- and framework-agnostic by design. Much of my career has involved being the sole or primary engineer embedded within multidisciplinary teams, which forced me to reason from first principles — from problem formulation and system design to deployment, monitoring, and long-term maintenance.

Working in these environments taught me how software behaves over time — how systems degrade, how assumptions fail, and how to design architectures that survive personnel churn, incomplete documentation, and changing requirements.

If you’re interested in building long-lived systems, tackling hard technical problems, or exploring unconventional intersections of technology and society, feel free to reach out.

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