Harry Truong is a product-focused senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building user-facing systems at scale, currently driving engineering work at Bloomberg after stints at Upsolve, Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, and the American Red Cross. He combines front-end fluency in JavaScript with full-stack pragmatism—contributing to open-source utilities like live-server where he improved live reload, port fallback, and CSS reloading. Harry’s career blends mission-driven work (designing humanitarian and nonprofit products) with high-impact platform experience at large tech companies, and he brings a maker’s mindset honed at the Recurse Center. A Brooklyn native and college dropout, he pairs curiosity and humility with a consistent track record of shipping practical tools that help people in crisis and at scale.
A simple development http server with live reload capability.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 6 PRs, 25 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Harry primarily contributed to the `live-server` project by implementing new features and addressing bugs related to its core functionality. They introduced the functionality for the server to fallback to a random port if the default port is in use. The user also refactored the codebase to incorporate an entry point for the application. Moreover, they implemented options to ignore files and improved the CSS reloading capabilities.
Contributions:21 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 9 months
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Harry Truong - Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg LP