How Harsh Vardhan Goenka became founding engineer #1 at Kalpa Labs

What happened

Before Harsh Vardhan Goenka joined Kalpa Labs, he was at Rubrik Inc., where he helped build Rubrik Cloud Vault from its early days and rewrote the company's testing infrastructure so that test suites that took hours ran in minutes. He'd always gravitated toward small teams and hard problems — competitive programming took him to the ICPC World Finals, and engineering at scale brou…