Craig Harshbarger
Member Of Technical Staff at Perplexity
Greater Rockford Area United States
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Top SchoolCraig Harshbarger is a seasoned front-end engineer with a decade of experience building responsive, high-performance UIs and customer dashboards for both open source and cloud products. He led cross-stack frontend efforts at Prefect, architecting dynamic interfaces, large-data visualizations, and reliable authentication systems before moving to Perplexity. Comfortable across HTML, SCSS, and TypeScript, Craig contributes to prominent open-source projects like Prefect—where he helped ship the Orion UI and mobile flow-run views—demonstrating practical impact on workflow orchestration tooling. His background spans senior UI roles at AccuLynx and early full-stack web work, giving him a strong product-minded approach to UX and engineering tradeoffs. Based in the Greater Rockford area, he blends hands-on component design with leadership in product-facing engineering. Colleagues would note his knack for abstracting common UI patterns (e.g., reusable components) to speed development and improve consistency.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Pensacola Christian College
English
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Github Skills (20)
ui-components10
typescript10
sc10
scs10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
twitter-bootstrap9
ajax9
vuejs39
vue9
html9
vuejs26
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
PrefectHQ/prefect
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Prefect is a workflow orchestration framework for building resilient data pipelines in Python.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 732 reviews, 2705 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Craig contributed to the development of the Orion UI, primarily focusing on UI component creation and enhancements. They implemented a "CopyButton" component to abstract functionality and added styling to the page. Additionally, the user worked on the mobile view for the flow runs page. The changes involved modifying HTML, SCSS, and TypeScript files.
pythondataobservabilityml-opsdataflow
kitbagjs/query
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
A typescript library for state management in Vue components
Contributions:38 reviews, 28 PRs, 58 pushes in 1 year
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