Jason Harrison
Senior Software Developer at Novarc Technologies Inc.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Harrison is a Senior Software Developer with a PhD and post-doc blending computer science and psychology, and over two decades of hands-on experience designing cross-platform systems from embedded devices to cloud services. He has led engineering teams at startups and enterprises, shipping products in agriculture, consumer wearables, and industrial AI while architecting robust update and asynchronous processing pipelines. Technically fluent across C/C++, Java, Python, Swift, and build/cloud tooling, he bridges firmware, desktop, mobile and AWS-based backends and has repeatedly moved research into production deployments. Known for mentoring and hiring multi-disciplinary engineers, he also brings uncommon domain breadth—deploying LWIR imaging systems for dairy health monitoring and building MLOps pipelines for mine safety—demonstrating a rare mix of perceptual research insight and pragmatic engineering.
7 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaBE Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BE Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stony Brook University
Github Skills (81)
balena10
resin9
yocto9
captive-portal8
linux8
shieldsio8
embedded8
ruby8
docker8
wifi8
fork7
api7
macos7
logrotate7
homebrew7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
drjasonharrison-vp-eio/docs-1
Oct 2018 - Sep 2019
Documentation for the resin.io platform.
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
resinresin-io
EIODiagnostics/multicontainer-getting-started
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Get up and running quickly with a multicontainer setup on balena
Contributions:5 commits, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
containerskubernetesbalenadocker
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