Andrew Harris
Staff Software Engineer at ngrok
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Harris is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native systems across payments and platform infrastructure. He’s delivered scalable services and Kafka-powered platforms at companies like Checkr, Braintree, PayPal, and now ngrok, with hands-on expertise in API gateway, IAM, migrations to managed Kafka, and Kubernetes platform moves. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Scala, Go, Java, Ruby, and infra-as-code), he pairs pragmatic engineering with architectural leadership—authoring RFCs, position papers, and developer guides. He’s equally at home debugging production incidents as he is running book clubs and mentoring teammates, a pattern that shows up repeatedly in his roles. Based in Oakland, he combines academic rigor from UIUC with startup-to-enterprise experience and a knack for turning operational complexity into reliable, automated platforms. An underappreciated detail: he’s repeatedly led nontechnical rituals (book clubs, remote social coaching) that measurably improved team cohesion during major platform transitions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
altMBABachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Sociology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science Sociology at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityMaster of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
French, English, bash, python, scala, java
Github Skills (109)
python10
terraform10
automation10
ssh10
paypal10
ansible10
boto10
graph10
aws10
infrastructure-as-code10
devops10
weave10
terraform-cloud9
hashicorp9
playing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
devmage/helm-exporter
Sep 2022 - Dec 2024
Export helm stats into the Prometheus format
Contributions:2 branches in 2 years 4 months
prometheus-exporterexporthelmkubernetesstats
devmage/weave-gitops
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Weave GitOps core
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
gitopskubernetesweaveweave-gitops
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