Garret Harp is a pragmatic backend and full-stack engineer with roughly 8 years of professional experience and nearly 5 years focused on serverless and cloud-native systems. He’s an AWS Certified Developer and Cloudflare community champion who has led migrations from monolithic Rails/Heroku stacks to AWS serverless architectures, cutting infrastructure costs by over 90% while improving scalability and observability. Garret excels at designing efficient database schemas (DynamoDB) and tuning query performance, and has a track record of building secure authentication and real-time features for consumer and gaming products. He blends hands-on engineering—building Chrome extensions, WebSocket systems, and automated outreach integrations—with practical leadership as a lead backend engineer and founder of streaming tools. Known for leveraging AI-assisted development to quickly resolve performance bottlenecks, he brings fast iteration and operational rigor to enterprise integrations and internal tooling. Based in Dallas, he pairs strong cloud expertise with an entrepreneurial streak that targets measurable business impact.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rick Reedy Highschool
No Degree Computer Science, No Degree Computer Science at LeTourneau University
Contributions:1 PR, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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