Summary
Jelani Harris is a Senior Software Engineer based in Madison, Wisconsin with over 15 years of hands-on experience building scalable back-end systems, APIs, and cloud deployments. He has designed and delivered high-traffic GraphQL and REST platforms, real-time content pipelines, and payment integrations for enterprise and media customers while owning DevOps, CI/CD, and database optimization. Comfortable across TypeScript, Node, MongoDB, AWS and legacy stacks, Jelani combines pragmatic engineering with strong client-facing and technical leadership from proposal to production. He’s equally at home modernizing Rails/PHP sites as he is architecting multi-layer caching and reporting for million-plus monthly users. A maker by nature, he’s spent much of his career turning operational pain points into internal tools and automated workflows that reduce friction and technical debt.
7 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Engineering, BS Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Beloit Memorial High School
English, Japanese