Summary
John Harrison is a Solution Architect with 11 years of experience designing and modernizing cloud-native systems for enterprise and product companies. He has progressed from software engineering roles at ExxonMobil—where he led efforts in Kubernetes, graph databases, CI/CD, and company-wide application modernization—to senior engineering and solution architect positions at Big Nerd Ranch, Block, and now Vercel. John excels at bridging hands-on technical delivery with architecture and developer experience, preferring collaborative environments and practical solutions that scale. He brings a track record of leading teams that migrate legacy workloads to cloud platforms and implement robust authentication and platform patterns. Based in Greater Houston, he pairs a beachside curiosity with a lifelong learning mindset and a history of building productivity plugins early in his career, showing both creative tooling instincts and engineering discipline.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Florida