Haris M is a software engineer and community manager based in San Francisco with 7 years of experience building product-focused applications and developer ecosystems. Currently at RunPod as Growth Engineering Lead, he blends hands-on engineering with community engagement to drive adoption and user experience. Previously at Spacedrive he contributed front-end improvements to an open-source, Rust-backed cross-platform file explorer, focusing on polish and UX details like experimental settings and navigation. Haris excels at shipping pragmatic UI fixes that improve user onboarding and retention, and he brings startup-speed iteration to both product and community initiatives. His background shows a pattern of improving developer-facing products while also stewarding the communities that make them thrive.
Spacedrive is an open source cross-platform file explorer, powered by a virtual distributed filesystem written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:11 reviews, 21 commits, 30 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Haris primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Spacedrive application. Their work involved fixing typos and grammatical errors in the landing page, updating UI elements and settings screens, and modifying the settings routes within the interface. They also implemented the storage of experimental settings in local storage and removed the waitlist feature. The user demonstrated a focus on refining the user interface and user experience.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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