Harrison Hogg
Software Engineer at Figma
Worthing, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Hogg is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years' experience building scalable developer-facing and consumer products, currently contributing to Figma after senior engineering roles at Spotify and leadership at Bitrise. He brings a full-stack mindset with particular strength in backend systems and developer tooling, demonstrated by contributions to Backstage’s permissions plugin where he added Zod-validated parameter schemas and improved integrations and documentation. Comfortable in fast-moving product environments, Harrison has a track record of shipping robust features across teams at Brandwatch, Outlyer, and others. Based in Worthing, England, he pairs practical engineering discipline with a designer-aware perspective from a Computing & IT and Design degree, making him adept at bridging developer experience and product goals.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computing & Information Technology and Design, Bachelor of Science (Honours) Computing & Information Technology and Design at The Open University
English
Github Skills (8)
backstage10
typescript10
nodejs10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
zod10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 84 commits, 35 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Harrison primarily contributed to the permission-node plugin, adding and modifying parameter validation using Zod schemas for permission rules. They implemented changes in the createPermissionIntegrationRouter, createConditionTransformer, and related test files. Furthermore, the user updated existing permission rules by adding params schema to the rules. The user also updated the documentation.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
HHogg/axiom
Feb 2017 - Sep 2018
Axiom - Pattern Library
Contributions:5 PRs, 653 pushes, 580 branches in 1 year 7 months
pattern-librarypatternaxiom
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