Summary
Harrison Black is a Software Engineer III with 8 years of experience building cloud-native systems and backend APIs, currently supporting McDonald’s AWS infrastructure and CI/CD practices through infrastructure-as-code. He progressed from Software Engineer II to a senior DevOps-focused role at McDonald’s after prior engineering work at FIS and an internship at NASA where he helped design robotic software. His background blends production-grade backend development with hands-on DevOps, release automation, and cloud architecture for large-scale restaurant technology. As a founding member of the Florida Space Institute’s EZ-RASSOR project, he brings proven robotics and embedded-systems experience that informs pragmatic system design. Based in Greater Orlando, he pairs a University of Central Florida computer science education with a wry “World’s Okayest Programmer” GitHub persona that signals both humility and approachability.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Central Florida