Barrett Harber
Owner And CEO at Worker Bee Consulting, LLC
Tampa, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolBarrett Harber is a former military intelligence officer turned DevSecOps founder and engineer with 13 years of experience building and automating cloud-native platforms. As Owner and CEO of Worker Bee Consulting and a hands-on contributor to projects like an AWS Lambda FFmpeg pipeline and the Center for Open Science, he blends infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD automation, and backend development to deliver reliable deployment workflows. His background in signals and geospatial analysis informs a disciplined, security-first approach to platform engineering and system design. Based in Tampa, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with deep operational experience from roles at Stelligent, Interfolio, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Outside of work he’s an avid gardener and caretaker of chickens and cats, a detail that mirrors his pragmatic, service-oriented engineering style.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical Engineering at Wright State University
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back-end-development10
python10
django10
aws-lambda10
ffmpeg10
aws-cloudformation10
gulpjs10
cicd9
aws-s39
nodejs9
outlook9
typescripts8
typescript-types8
typescript8
data-management8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
binoculars/aws-lambda-ffmpeg
Apr 2015 - Nov 2022
An S3-triggered Amazon Web Services Lambda function that runs your choice of FFmpeg 🎬 commands on a file 🎥 and uploads the outputs to a bucket.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 225 commits, 67 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Barrett's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of an AWS Lambda function for video processing. They refactored the code, refactoring and streamlining its processes, updated dependencies, and streamlined the upload and deployment steps. They also implemented several updates to the build and deployment pipeline, migrating to use CloudFormation for infrastructure management and automating the CI/CD workflow using the defined `gulpfile.js` script. This work improved the project's reliability and simplified deployment.
lambda-functionoutputsaws-lambdaamazonweb-services
CenterForOpenScience/osf.io
Nov 2016 - Sep 2018
Facilitating Open Science
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:148 commits, 56 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Barrett primarily updated the `populate_preprint_providers.py` script, modifying the data for various preprint providers. These updates included adding or modifying the advisory boards, descriptions, and example links for each provider. The user also merged branches and made updates to tests related to the preprint providers. Their work focused on improving the data and functionality related to the various preprint providers within the Open Science Framework.
pythonsciencedjango-rest-frameworkdjangojavascript
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