Josh Harris
Tech Lead at ID.me
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Harris is a tech lead and hands-on engineering manager with 12+ years building scalable web and data platforms from startup greenfields to production at ID.me. He has led major architecture transformations—breaking monoliths into 30+ services, containerizing Java services, and cutting AWS costs by half through spot instances, autoscaling, and ETL optimization. Comfortable across Ruby on Rails, data engineering, and cloud-native tooling (EKS, CloudFormation, Redshift, Kafka), he pairs engineering execution with strong mentorship and people leadership. A serial founder and nonprofit educator, he helped launch STEM Tutoring and continues to volunteer and mentor career changers entering tech. Based in Portland, he blends pragmatic cost-conscious engineering with a passion for developer growth and community building. Notably, he’s driven investor-facing documentation and due diligence while still shipping core technical work.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Maryland University CollegeBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religious Texts/ Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Religious Texts/ Philosophy at Abilene Christian UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyReact.js Nanodegree, Computer Science, React.js Nanodegree, Computer Science at Udacity
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Github Skills (23)
environment-variables7
activerecord6
ruby-on-rails6
amazon-redshift6
crop-image6
sinatra6
amazon-s36
bucket6
amazon-web-services6
ruby6
soap6
magento6
react5
responsive5
rails5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
harrisjb/cmsc495
Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
Project for CMSC495
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
harrisjb/dots
Jul 2013 - Feb 2014
Contributions:16 commits in 7 months
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