Harriet Lawrence
Principal Product Manager at Red Hat
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHarriet Lawrence is a Principal Product Manager at Red Hat with 11 years of experience blending product strategy, technical writing, and hands-on engineering. She brings deep expertise in developer tooling and GitOps—currently focused on OpenShift GitOps—and has a proven track record shipping CI/CD improvements from her time at Buildkite. Harriet’s background spans backend and DevOps contributions to a popular open-source build agent, plus clear, user-focused documentation that helped onboard integrations and streamline developer workflows. Comfortable bridging engineering and product teams, she pairs technical fluency in Go and CI systems with an applied-linguistics-informed talent for making complex concepts accessible. Colleagues value her for converting operational detail into product decisions that scale for large enterprise customers.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Information Technology/ Bachelor of Creative Industries Web/Software Development and Literary Studies, Bachelor of Information Technology/ Bachelor of Creative Industries Web/Software Development and Literary Studies at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)St Margaret's Anglican Girls SchoolThe University of Melbourne
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Github Skills (24)
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command-line-interface10
cicd10
go10
markdown-it10
command-line10
buildkit10
documentation10
api-design9
dockers9
continuous-integration9
continuous-delivery9
docker9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
buildkite/docs
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021
The source files for the Buildkite documentation
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:10 reviews, 1030 commits, 393 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Harriet focused on improving and updating the Buildkite documentation, as evidenced by their commits to the `buildkite/docs` repository. Their contributions included adding and revising content for various topics, such as pipeline configuration, setting up integrations with external tools like Bitbucket, and providing instructions on managing Buildkite API access tokens. They demonstrated an ability to communicate technical details clearly, organizing content, and adding helpful examples and screenshots to aid comprehension.
buildkite-documentationbuildkitesource-files
buildkite/agent
May 2019 - Sep 2020
The Buildkite Agent is an open-source toolkit written in Go for securely running build jobs on any device or network
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Harriet contributed to the Buildkite agent's functionality and documentation. Their work includes enhancing the artifact upload process by integrating Artifactory support and refining the help documentation for clarity. The user also made changes to the API client and job runner, introducing new variables related to agent configuration and environment variables, and addressing code merging. Their contributions touch both the command-line interface and the core agent logic.
continuous-deploymentgolangbuild-jobsjobsenvironments
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