Harry Bairstow
Senior Software Engineer at inference.net
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolHarry Bairstow is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building reliable backend systems, internal tooling, and infra/ops. He has shipped production authentication and notification features at scale (e.g., WalletConnect) and contributed provider integrations for Supabase Auth, adding OAuth flows for Spotify, Slack, and WorkOS. His open-source work on the Gleam compiler emphasizes test automation and language correctness, reflecting a strong focus on robustness and cross-platform reliability. Harry has moved between research and product roles—including work at Lit Protocol and Felicis—bringing a blend of practical engineering and exploratory R&D to hard reliability problems. He’s completed an MS in Computing while consistently delivering infrastructure that makes distributed systems and trusted execution behave predictably.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computing, Master of Science - MS Computing at The Open UniversityA-Level Computer Science Electronics Maths, A-Level Computer Science Electronics Maths at Sir John Deane's Sixth Form CollegeGCSE, GCSE at Sandbach School
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Github Skills (22)
authorizations10
apidoc10
testing10
user-authentication10
authentication10
compiler-compiler10
go10
api10
gleam10
authorization10
jwt10
compiler10
oauth10
slack9
spotify9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
gleam-lang/gleam
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
⭐️ A friendly language for building type-safe, scalable systems!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:49 reviews, 60 commits, 15 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to adding and improving tests for the Gleam programming language. Their work included adding tests for negation, formatting, and general language features. They also modified existing tests and updated the token and parsing aspects of the compiler. Their contributions indicate a focus on ensuring the correctness and reliability of the Gleam compiler across different target platforms.
gleamscalableerlangstatically-typedtype-safe
supabase/auth
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
A JWT based API for managing users and issuing JWT tokens
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 7 commits, 3 PRs in 24 days
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to adding and integrating new authentication providers within the Supabase Auth project. They implemented initial support for Spotify, Slack, and WorkOS, which involved creating provider-specific code, configurations, and API integrations. The contributions included setting up OAuth flows and incorporating provider settings into the application's configuration. The user also made minor code adjustments to existing provider implementations.
apiclient-authauthorizationtokenssupabase
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