Harihar Shankar
Senior Software Development Engineer at Zillow
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolHarihar Shankar is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of experience building data-driven systems and research software across national labs, healthcare, and real-estate tech. His background blends applied research at Los Alamos with production data engineering at 98point6 and platform-level engineering at Zillow, giving him a strong footing in scalable pipelines, systems design, and information preservation. He focuses on web preservation, information science, and scholarly communication, turning research questions into robust, production-ready solutions. Comfortable bridging research and product teams, he brings both academic rigor from an MS in Computer Networks and hands-on delivery in high-compliance environments. A detail that sets him apart is his long track record at a national laboratory where experimental R&D informed practical engineering choices later applied to commercial systems.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Networks and Systems, MS, Computer Networks and Systems at The University of New Mexico
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Github Skills (46)
memento10
triple10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
browser-extension9
firefox9
chrome9
rdf8
pattern8
sparql8
javascript8
mediawiki7
json-api7
react7
client-library7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hariharshankar/pygeo
Dec 2013 - Oct 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 22 pushes in 3 years 10 months
iipc/robustlinks
Feb 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
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