Brian Ford
Staff Software Engineer at Harvey
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ford is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building web and mobile applications and driving engineering processes across teams at Google and Uber (including Uber Freight) and now at Harvey. A longtime Angular contributor, he has deep front-end expertise—C++, JavaScript, HTML5/CSS3—and a track record of maintaining and improving core Angular libraries, generators, tooling and integrations (Socket.IO, Yeoman, Batarang). He spans full-stack work from refactoring RESTful APIs and Express servers to automating CI/build pipelines for large projects, and is comfortable both shipping features and hardening developer workflows. Known for pragmatic refactors, test-focused contributions, and attention to compatibility and performance, he brings platform-level thinking to product engineering.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Michigan
Github Skills (76)
url-routing10
expressjs10
testing10
test-framework10
bash10
gruntjs10
j10
cs310
jtest10
rest-api10
bootstra10
javascript10
animation10
async10
bower10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
btford/angular-socket-io
Feb 2013 - Dec 2015
Socket.IO component for AngularJS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Brian contributed significantly to the `angular-socket-io` library, which integrates Socket.IO with AngularJS. Their work focused on core functionality, including making socket events asynchronous and implementing features like `socket.forward` and `socket.disconnect`. They also introduced versioning and refactored the code, adding tests and improving documentation. Overall, their commits demonstrate a strong understanding of integrating Socket.IO with AngularJS and the broader development lifecycle.
angularjssocket
angular/batarang
Jul 2012 - Mar 2016
AngularJS WebInspector Extension for Chrome
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:225 commits, 8 PRs, 39 pushes in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the AngularJS-based web inspector extension. Their work focused on enhancing the user interface, particularly improving the visual presentation of the watchers tree. They also added the ability to save performance data as JSON and added the AngularJS version in the options tab for better user experience. The user's contributions included implementing new UI elements and fixing bugs to improve the functionality of the Batarang extension.
angularjschromeweb-inspector
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