Brian Harbron
Staff Engineer at Grubhub
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Harbron is a Staff Engineer and seasoned Site Reliability professional based in Chicago with over a decade of hands-on experience keeping large-scale systems resilient at Grubhub. He progressed through roles from system administrator to SRE manager and now staff-level engineering, giving him deep operational knowledge of incident response, reliability engineering, and team leadership in production environments. Comfortable both managing people and shipping code, he blends DevOps craftsmanship with a developer’s curiosity—he also codes hobby projects for old-school RPGs. His background includes early IT consulting and international teaching experience, which contribute to a pragmatic, cross-cultural approach to problem solving. Known for bridging the gap between day-to-day ops and long-term platform improvements, he focuses on measurable reliability outcomes and scalable practices.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Japanese
Github Skills (32)
react-redux9
electron-react9
aws8
gcp8
redux8
csharp8
notebook7
javascript7
golang7
pulumi7
semantic7
dotnet7
python7
serverless7
azure7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bharbron/hexbook-semantic
Aug 2018 - Nov 2018
An Electron-React-Redux-Semantic-UI application for automatically generating a hexcrawl campaign notebook from random tables.
Contributions:309 commits, 61 PRs, 227 pushes in 2 months
reactelectronelectron-reactnotebookreact-redux
bharbron/tiertime_material_profile_maker
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:25 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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