Harrington Joseph
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrington Joseph is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with over 15 years designing and operating high-throughput, data-driven distributed systems and workflow orchestration platforms. He has led architecture and implementation of mission-critical orchestration at Netflix (handling hundreds of thousands of tasks per day and ~450M events/day) and most recently drives platform-level engineering at Airbnb, blending DSL design, performance tuning, and security for large user communities. His background spans end-to-end data infrastructure, event-driven routing, and ML/data-platform integrations, and he’s contributed backend improvements and robust testing to notable open-source tooling like papermill. Trained in AI and systems engineering, he pairs academic depth with hands-on production experience and a track record of evangelizing tooling to hundreds of internal users.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. System Engineer, Software Development, System Design, Operative Systems, Graph and Data Algorithms and Structures, DB, B.S. System Engineer, Software Development, System Design, Operative Systems, Graph and Data Algorithms and Structures, DB at Universidad Metropolitana (VE)M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Information retrieval, Neuro-fuzzy computing, Speech processing, Web mining-engineering, Robotic, M.S. in Artificial Intelligence, Information retrieval, Neuro-fuzzy computing, Speech processing, Web mining-engineering, Robotic at Universidad de SalamancaUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
notebook10
http10
python10
jupyter10
http-request10
api-design9
testing9
api9
apim9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nteract/papermill
Dec 2017 - Mar 2018
📚 Parameterize, execute, and analyze notebooks
Role in this project:
Back-end & QA Engineer
Back-end & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 2 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Harrington primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the papermill project by adding an HTTP handler for reading and writing notebooks from URLs. They implemented the `HttpHandler` class, which leverages the `requests` library to interact with external resources. Furthermore, they added unit tests for the `HttpHandler`, ensuring the reliability and correctness of the new HTTP functionality. This involved testing read and write operations and ensuring the `listdir` operation is correctly handled, highlighting a focus on robust code and error handling.
nteractpublishingpythonpipelinedata-science
bmat-licensing/Jella
May 2011 - Jun 2011
Contributions:68 commits in 1 month
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