Harrison Hsieh
Backend Software Engineer at Burst
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarrison Hsieh is a backend software engineer based in Palo Alto with 11 years of hands-on experience building secure, performant web and infrastructure systems. He combines a full-stack background—from .NET and C# to modern JavaScript frameworks like Next.js and Vue—with practical ops skills gained designing and maintaining high-performance servers and cloud-focused infrastructure. At Burst and prior startups he’s moved quickly from iteration to production, leading engineering efforts and overhauling customer-facing platforms to improve functionality and speed. His work at UIUC included refactoring pages for up to 89% faster load times and designing two-way data syncs, reflecting a talent for turning messy requirements into efficient, auditable systems. Curious and perpetually tinkering since his time at the University of Illinois, he brings strong communication and a privacy-first mindset to backend architecture and security-minded feature development.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
39reputation
687reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (11)
geofencing8
android-architecture-components7
architecture7
kotlin7
android-architecture6
fusionauth6
android6
operating-system2
kernel2
linux1
unix1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
GitHubHQ/GitHubHQ.github.io
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 4 months
ProPorygon/electron-notes
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:28 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 2 days
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