Al Harris
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolAl Harris is a Principal Engineer based in Seattle with a decade-plus career advancing complex, customer-facing systems at Amazon and AWS. He has progressed from engineering and managerial roles across video recommendations, device-to-customer services, and Halo to leading back-end development for AWS Amplify and now driving architecture and delivery as a Principal at AWS. His open-source contributions include meaningful back-end work on the widely used aws-amplify/amplify-cli—improving API management and refactoring GraphQL transformer and resource managers to boost maintainability. Known for turning messy integration points into cleaner, more extensible subsystems, he blends hands-on coding with broad system design. He holds a BS in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from Gonzaga University and brings an engineer-first leadership style that prioritizes long-term code health.
4 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering Computer Science, BS Computer Engineering Computer Science at Gonzaga University
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Github Skills (14)
graphql10
aws10
apidoc10
wpgraphql10
wordpress-graphql10
cli9
back-end-development9
cloud-infrastructure9
api9
cloud-services9
serverless8
aws-amplify8
amazon-web-services6
react6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
aws-amplify/amplify-cli
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The AWS Amplify CLI is a toolchain for simplifying serverless web and mobile development.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:111 reviews, 53 commits, 137 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Al primarily contributed to the AWS Amplify CLI, focusing on back-end aspects. Their commits demonstrate work related to API management, including aliasing and renaming API provider methods. They also worked on refactoring and code cleanup, specifically separating GraphQL transformer and resource managers for future refactoring. These actions, in conjunction with resolving issues such as removing references and updating import paths, suggest a focus on improving the core functionality and maintainability of the CLI's back-end services.
amplify-cliaws-lambdaserverlessnotificationsstorage
aws-amplify/amplify-codegen-ui
Oct 2021 - Mar 2022
Generate React components for use in an AWS Amplify project.
Contributions:94 reviews, 172 commits, 205 PRs in 5 months
reactjavascriptaws-amplifyawsreact-components
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