Dana Harrington
Head Of Architecture at PlanHub
Barrie, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolDana Harrington is a pragmatic technology leader and Head of Architecture with ~9 years in lead-architect roles and a total of 8–9 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, secure, and highly scalable systems. She has driven architecture and delivery at organizations including BlueCat (DNS Edge), SapientRazorfish (Walmart.ca scalability), RedElastic (analytics and MLOps), and now PlanHub, consistently improving performance, automation, and developer velocity. Dana’s deep background in functional and reactive programming, distributed systems, and non-blocking Scala/Akka pipelines gives her a rare combination of academic rigor and production-hardened engineering. She excels at translating hard business constraints into resilient, observable architectures and enjoys collaborating with engineers and researchers to push software engineering practices forward. An early career mix of database administration, systems integration and teaching informs her pragmatic focus on operability and scale.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BEd Education (I/S Math/Computer Science), BEd Education (I/S Math/Computer Science) at Trent UniversityMSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at University of CalgaryBMath Computer Science, BMath Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (24)
stock10
stock-trading10
axon10
axon-framework10
ddd10
webflux10
trading9
architecture9
lagom9
cqrs9
reactive9
reactive-programming9
messaging8
akka7
reactive-streams6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RedElastic/reactive-stock-trader
Nov 2018 - Feb 2019
A reference architecture for stock trading to demonstrate the concepts of reactive systems development. Based on the original Stock Trader by IBM and implemented with Lagom by Lightbend.
Contributions:187 commits, 3 PRs, 1 push in 2 months
stock-tradingaxon-frameworkaxontradingreactive-systems
dana-harrington/gitops-example
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch, 3 tags in 1 day
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