Harris Lapiroff
Principal Web Developer at Freedom Of The Press Foundation
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarris Lapiroff is a Principal Web Developer with 15 years of full-stack experience, currently leading a small team at the Freedom of the Press Foundation to maintain and evolve four web-based press freedom projects. He blends hands-on engineering and product-focused design, pairing a BA in Mathematics with deep UI/UX sensibilities developed at Oberlin and through co-founding a worker-owned web collective. Known for pragmatic craftsmanship—“jack of all trades, master of a few”—he moves between front-end polish and backend reliability while mentoring teammates. Based in Somerville, MA, he prioritizes mission-driven work and pragmatic impact, aiming to “do good well.” Less obvious: his background in mathematics and long-running stewardship of campus and collective web projects gives him a rare mix of analytical rigor and cooperative leadership.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Mathematics, BA, Mathematics at Oberlin College
Github Skills (200)
autocomplete10
digital-signature10
flask-application10
esignature10
scanner10
docx10
user-experience10
mongodb10
zsh10
tracks10
orm10
content-management10
lgbt10
cms10
python10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
harrislapiroff/chromamine.com
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:20 PRs, 527 pushes, 44 branches in 10 years 4 months
harrislapiroff/wagtail
May 2015 - Mar 2022
A Django content management system focused on flexibility and user experience
Contributions:26 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 11 months
cmsmanagement-systempythondjangouser-experience
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