Hugh Barrigan
Chief Technology Officer at Mirah
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHugh Barrigan is a technology leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building scalable systems across healthcare, travel, advertising, and analytics. As CTO of Mirah he leads Product and Engineering to deliver a Measurement-Based Care platform that drives rigorous behavioral health outcomes. He previously scaled backend ad infrastructure at Tapjoy to handle over 2 billion daily requests and architected a customer-retention analytics platform at Quant5. Early work includes infection surveillance systems for clinicians and revenue-driving reservation system projects, showing a consistent focus on high-impact, mission-driven software. An active contributor to the Ruby/Rails ecosystem, he improved performance and polymorphic relationship handling in the widely used jsonapi-resources library. Based in Cambridge, MA and educated at the University of Cambridge, he blends academic rigor with hands-on systems engineering and product leadership.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (9)
activerecord10
json10
ruby-rails10
rails10
api-design10
ruby10
testing9
performance-optimization9
rest-api9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cerebris/jsonapi-resources
Jul 2016 - Dec 2016
A resource-focused Rails library for developing JSON:API compliant servers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hugh contributed primarily to improving the performance and functionality of the `jsonapi-resources` library. Their work included optimizing data loading for relationships and enabling more flexible eager loading configurations. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs related to polymorphic relationships and implemented support for namespacing in includes. These changes involved modifications across core library files, including serializers, request parsers, and the relationship model.
apijsonapidevelopingrailscompliant
mirahtech/jsonapi-resources
Sep 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 5 months
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