Harrison Katz
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Duolingo
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHarrison Katz is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure across startups and large consumer platforms, currently at Duolingo in New York. He blends deep Linux systems expertise, automation-first SRE practices, and developer productivity work—having owned Kubernetes platforms, on‑prem hybrid clusters, and cloud migrations at companies like Squarespace, Gemini, and ngrok. Harrison has a Computer Science degree from Georgia Tech with AI and Theory threads, and contributes to notable open-source projects such as Ansible AWX by improving Kubernetes deployments. Known for pragmatic tooling (Perl, Ruby, Go, Ansible, Terraform) and muscle-memory vim/git skills, he routinely turns operational complexity into repeatable automation. Outside of work he pursues language learning, rock climbing, and board games, reflecting a curiosity for systems and strategy that shows up in both infrastructure design and developer enablement.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUniversity of GeorgiaHigh School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at North Oconee High School
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Github Skills (18)
kubernetes10
automation10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
automations10
eclipse6
angular6
android6
http-request6
typescript6
bash6
java6
eclipse-plugin6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/awx
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
AWX provides a web-based user interface, REST API, and task engine built on top of Ansible. It is one of the upstream projects for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 51 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Harrison primarily focuses on configuring and improving the Kubernetes deployment within the AWX project. They've made various changes to deployment templates and related configurations. The contributions include adding annotations, fixing typos, and separating the Kubernetes Ingress TLS spec. These changes ensure proper functionality and better integration with Kubernetes.
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hjkatz/sodamixer
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
Contributions:23 commits in 2 months
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