Harry Rein is a founder and CTO with 10 years of experience building production-ready mobile apps and web platforms using React, React Native, Node.js, Django and modern cloud tooling. He currently leads engineering at ShopMy, architecting a live, algorithmically organized product catalog powering creator-brand commerce, and has hands-on experience across the full stack from databases to AWS deployments. Previously he was the first engineer at Popcart, shipping a 4.8-rated iOS app and high-visibility web tools and extensions with tens to hundreds of thousands of users. Harry also contributed front-end UI improvements to the widely used Open edX platform, enhancing responsiveness and course UX for a global education product. An MIT-trained engineer with an M.Eng in AI and HCI, he blends product-minded design with data-driven engineering and a track record of turning prototypes into scalable customer-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:131 commits, 149 PRs, 812 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily worked on front-end UI improvements and styling updates for the Open edX platform. They addressed styling issues on course update pages, implemented new UI elements, and made responsive design adjustments for the dashboard and learner profile. The user also implemented a new feature for displaying course messages on the home page, and added event logging to course tools.
Contributions:2 PRs, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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