Dave Harris
Senior Fullstack Rails Developer at Pop-in Photos
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolDave Harris is a Senior Fullstack Rails Developer with 15 years of experience building high-availability web applications and APIs, now based in Christchurch, New Zealand. As co-founder and lead engineer of Pop-in Photos, he built a bespoke Rails SaaS serving 70 photographers across five countries and 40,000 customers, handling multi-currency, timezone and franchise requirements. He brings deep backend expertise from a Java/JEE and Spring background, strong Unix/Linux administration skills, and practical DevOps experience delivering infrastructure-as-code and automated testing. Dave has a track record of mentoring junior engineers and improving team quality through code reviews, peer programming and technical stewardship. Comfortable moving between hands-on development and technical leadership, he’s pragmatic about balancing feature delivery with reliability and technical debt. His multidisciplinary BSc in Computer Science, Physics and Maths complements a methodical approach to designing scalable, production-grade systems.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSC, Computer Science, Physics, Maths, BSC, Computer Science, Physics, Maths at Victoria University of Wellington
Github Skills (135)
semantic-ui10
chartjs-plugin10
act10
javascript10
listings10
charts10
background-service10
fork10
google-charts10
fomantic-ui10
highcharts10
mate10
graph10
capybara10
ruby-rails10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
daveharris/daveharris.github.io
Jul 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 10 months
daveharris/personal
Feb 2020 - Jun 2024
Collection of random scripts
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 branches in 4 years 4 months
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