Harrison Harnisch
Software Engineer at Meta
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Harnisch is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-focused tools and cloud-native systems, currently at Meta after senior engineering leadership roles at Twilio, Vercel, and Buffer. He authored O'Reilly’s Atomic Migration Strategy for Web Teams, blending practical migration playbooks with hands-on engineering experience. Harrison contributes to notable open-source projects like vercel/hyper, improving terminal UX through color, cursor, and session-management enhancements. Comfortable across front-end, infrastructure, and lower-level hardware work, he thrives on continuous learning and mentorship, often surfacing insights from unexpected corners of a codebase. Based in Denver, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to complex migration and developer-experience challenges.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Computer Engineering, BSE Computer Engineering at University of Iowa
Github Skills (7)
terminal-emulator10
javascript10
terminal-application10
react10
configuration-management8
css7
html7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vercel/hyper
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
A terminal built on web technologies
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 39 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Harrison contributed to the visual and functional aspects of the Hyper terminal application. Their commits focused on improving the user experience by enhancing the default color palette and implementing configurable cursor opacity. They also added functionality to open new tabs within the same directory, demonstrating an understanding of session management within the terminal environment. The user modified configuration files and components to achieve these enhancements.
reacttechnologiesterminal-emulatorscssjavascript
hharnisc/hypercwd
Jul 2016 - Mar 2019
Opens new tabs with the same directory as the current tab in Hyper
Contributions:28 commits, 18 PRs, 38 pushes in 2 years 8 months
chromedirectoryfirefox-addonhypertabs
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