Harris Novick
Co-founder & CTO at Advance Alpha Group
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHarris Novick is a seasoned software leader and co-founder/CTO with 15 years of experience building high-quality products and best-in-class development teams, currently leading Subtext—a text-subscription platform connecting creators and audiences. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering (Ruby/Rails, JS frameworks, websockets, real-time systems) with strategic product incubation experience from Advance Alpha Group, where he helped spin out multiple media and personalization products that reached millions. Known for shipping scalable, event-driven systems and improving developer productivity, he’s built realtime sync layers and high-traffic voting platforms that handled thousands of requests per second. A former consultant and senior engineer across media and entertainment, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-grade reliability to product engineering. Outside of work he writes songs and pursues diverse interests, which he credits for staying “interested and vital” and informs his creative approach to product design.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Political Science Religious Studies Music Composition, B.A. Political Science Religious Studies Music Composition at New York University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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ruby-on-rails
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collections
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activerecord
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json
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Github Skills (127)
sms10
tabler10
dns10
javascript10
modular10
facebook-messenger10
alexa-skills-kit10
rails-app10
github-pages10
counter10
subdomain10
dedicated10
bootstrap10
counter-cache10
microsoft-teams10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
lightyrs/podcastapp
Jan 2011 - Apr 2011
Contributions:86 commits in 2 months
alpha-group/iframe-resizer
Mar 2021 - Dec 2023
Keep same and cross domain iFrames sized to their content with support for window/content resizing, in page links, nesting and multiple iFrames
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 9 months
nestingkeepiframescross-domain-iframeswindow
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