Jimmy Harrison
VP Of Engineering at KickUp
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Harrison is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience scaling product and engineering organizations, currently serving as VP of Engineering at KickUp after progressive leadership roles there since 2016. He combines full-stack engineering chops—demonstrated by contributions to notable open-source projects like Apostrophe CMS—with product-minded architecture and delivery experience across startups and enterprise teams. Based in Philadelphia, he moves fluidly between hands-on backend refactoring and strategic platform decisions, having led teams from code-level improvements to executive product-engineering alignment. A distance runner and occasional backpacker, he brings the discipline of endurance sports to long-term technical roadmaps and team resilience. His dual BA in Computer Science and Music hints at a creative approach to problem solving and systems design.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science; Music, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Computer Science; Music at University of Virginia
Github Skills (6)
cms10
javascript10
nodejs10
mongodb-database8
mongodb8
front-end-development7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apostrophecms/apostrophe
Feb 2015 - Jul 2016
A full-featured, open-source content management framework built with Node.js that empowers organizations by combining in-context editing and headless architecture in a full-stack JS environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:471 commits, 77 PRs, 316 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jimmy primarily contributed to the development of the Apostrophe CMS project, with a focus on implementing and refactoring core features. The commits include significant changes to the apostrophe-files module, including refactoring and improvements to the API. Additionally, the user has made commits to the assets and templates modules. They're contributing to the improvement of the backend.
cmscms-frameworkfull-featurednode-jsfull-stack
kickup-dev/django-celery-monitor
Jun 2018 - Apr 2023
Celery Monitoring for Django
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 10 months
pythonredisdjangocelery-monitoringcelery
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