Jason Harvey
Principal Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Wasilla, Alaska, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Harvey is a Principal Engineer with 18 years of experience designing and operating large-scale web platforms from systems administration to site reliability and back-end engineering. Based in Wasilla, Alaska, he has led infrastructure and reliability efforts at Reddit since 2017 and previously supported high-traffic sites at Stack Exchange and Rackspace. His hands-on background spans Linux systems, SRE practices, and Python back-end work — including contributions to the historical Reddit codebase that improved database interactions and user-tracking features. Known for blending deep operational expertise with pragmatic engineering, he excels at turning complex distributed-system challenges into maintainable, production-ready solutions.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Alaska Anchorage
Github Skills (8)
database-management10
reddit10
python10
postgresql9
cassandra9
api8
apidoc8
javascript5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/reddit
Jun 2011 - Sep 2014
historical code from reddit.com
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason contributed to the back-end functionality of the Reddit platform. Their work involved refactoring database interactions, including removing load balancing and implementing methods for updating account activity. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as allowing gold users to view more subreddits and integrating a system for tracking active users within subreddits. This involved changes across multiple Python files related to models, controllers, and templates.
pythonprawjavascripthistoricalarchiver
alienth/fastlyctl
Jun 2016 - Nov 2022
Contributions:141 commits, 3 PRs, 73 pushes in 6 years 6 months
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