Harry Fairbanks
Software Engineering Manager at Thrive Career Wellness Platform
Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolHarry Fairbanks is a Software Engineering Manager based in Amherst, Nova Scotia with a decade of hands-on experience building and leading Ruby on Rails teams and transitioning stacks to React/Node on AWS. He progressed from full-stack developer to team lead and now manager at Thrive, combining deep technical fluency with disciplined project management honed during a long career in the Canadian Armed Forces. Harry has repeatedly led small teams through architecture, testing, deployment and migrations, and is comfortable owning both code quality and release readiness. Outside of work he builds small applications and teaches his children to code, reflecting a genuine passion for practical learning and mentorship. His background in classroom instruction and military leadership gives him a rare blend of patient teaching, formal process orientation, and operational decisiveness.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma in Information Technology Computer Programming, Diploma in Information Technology Computer Programming at Nova Scotia Community College - NSCCBachelor's degree History and Philosophy (Double Major), Bachelor's degree History and Philosophy (Double Major) at St. Thomas University (CA)
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Github Skills (29)
sinatra10
mhealth9
ruby-on-rails8
rails8
ruby8
carrierwave8
undefined6
javascript6
after-effects6
minitest5
facilities5
rspec5
testing5
codeception4
benchmarking4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hcfairbanks/helpdesk
Jun 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 77 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 5 months
helpdesknodejslogging
hcfairbanks/carrierwave_asserts
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Minitest asserts that model the RSpec matchers for carrierwave
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year 4 months
carrierwaveminitestrailsrubyrspec
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