Harris Miller
Lead Software Engineer at Alteryx
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarHarris Miller is a Lead Software Engineer based in Denver with 11 years of experience building reliable, high-performance systems. At Alteryx he combines hands-on engineering with team leadership to deliver scalable back-end solutions. An active open-source contributor, he has improved the widely used Ramda functional JavaScript library—adding utilities like isNotEmpty, refining core functions, and optimizing performance around array handling and placeholder support. Harris brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach that balances clean API design with measurable performance gains. Colleagues appreciate his ability to translate tricky edge cases into robust implementations and clear documentation. He’s equally comfortable refactoring legacy code as he is introducing small targeted features that yield outsized benefits.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (5)
ram10
javascript10
functional-programming10
ramdajs10
testing8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ramda/ramda
Aug 2022 - Feb 2025
:ram: Practical functional Javascript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 48 PRs, 96 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Harris primarily focused on improving the Ramda JavaScript library by implementing new features and optimizing existing code. They added an `isNotEmpty` function and updated documentation for `head()`, `last()`, and `nth()` functions. The user also contributed to performance improvements by updating known array lengths and refactored code to match Ramda standards. Additionally, they fixed cross-version placeholder support and implemented functionality for empty sets and maps.
ramfunctional-programmingjavascriptramdafunctional-javascript
Harris-Miller/ramda
Oct 2022 - Feb 2025
:ram: Practical functional Javascript
Contributions:71 pushes, 33 branches in 2 years 4 months
ramfunctorfunctional-programmingjavascriptfunctional-javascript
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