Harrison Borges
Senior Software Engineer - Platform
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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SeniorHarrison Borges is a Senior Software Engineer and platform-focused builder with 11 years of experience delivering backend systems, DevOps automation, and full-stack products across startups and scale-ups. He currently shapes platform engineering at The Farmer's Dog while running The Loose Collective, a developer-designer network he founded to deliver clean, scalable web and mobile apps. Past roles include founding engineering at Ping—where he built a GraphQL backend and a friend-recommendation engine on Postgres—and leading engineering at Kontango, driving ISO-27001 compliance and modernizing stacks. Harrison has a track record of turning monoliths into cloud-native microservices, architecting advanced CI/CD on GCP, and shepherding complex DB migrations into production. He pairs hands-on implementation with process leadership—introducing pair programming and automation to small teams—to accelerate delivery without sacrificing reliability. Based in New York, he balances pragmatic engineering with a knack for simplifying complex domain problems into practical, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (89)
swift8
kubectl8
discord-js8
strongly-typed8
discord-bot8
file-watcher8
typescript8
vscode8
vscode-extension8
electron8
boilerplate7
apollo-ios7
bots7
visual-studio7
editor7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
politicker/betterbike-api
Aug 2022 - Jul 2024
find available citibikes near you?
Contributions:3 PRs, 56 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonnear
Hbbb/surfbot-go
Nov 2017 - Nov 2020
a rewrite/re-imagination of surfbot, written in Go
Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
golangimaginationrewrite
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