Harper Reed
Chief Executive Officer at Pardee RAND Graduate School
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolHarper Reed is a seasoned technologist and executive with 28 years of experience building scalable web and commerce platforms, currently serving as CEO of 2389 Research in Chicago. He rose to prominence as CTO of the Obama 2012 campaign and has since led product and engineering teams across startups and enterprises including Braintree, PayPal, Threadless, and multiple CEO roles. Harper blends hands-on software architecture and operations experience with strategic leadership in innovation labs and research institutions such as the MIT Media Lab and USC Annenberg. He sits on the Pardee RAND Graduate School Board of Governors, reflecting a sustained engagement with policy and research beyond pure product work. Known for taking small sites to enterprise-grade platforms, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with practical systems-thinking and a quiet, approachable demeanor that colleagues describe as “a normal person doing normal things.”
28 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Cornell CollegeGreeley Central High School
Github Skills (162)
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identicon10
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webservice10
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jetbrains9
visual9
smartthings9
cli9
slack-bot9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
harperreed/big-renderer
Apr 2018 - Nov 2024
a renderer for BIG.JS. Convert big.js to images
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 5 branches in 6 years 7 months
convert-jsrenderimagejavascriptrenderer
mik3y/snippets
Feb 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 1 year 4 months
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