Michael Harris
Software Engineer And Pragmatic Agile Player-Coach-Trainer
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Harris is a pragmatic software engineer, trainer, and Agile player-coach with 20+ years building scientific, cleantech, IoT, and sustainability-focused systems from embedded C++ to Python and full‑stack JavaScript. He blends hands‑on engineering—shipping world‑first nanotech instrumentation and working on NASA photovoltaic R&D—with deep Agile practice as a Certified Scrum Trainer who’s taught technical and leadership cohorts worldwide. Comfortable both in R&D trenches and at the executive coaching table, he helps organizations accelerate innovation using a tailored mix of Agile, XP, Lean Startup, and design thinking. An active open‑source contributor, he’s worked with Ward Cunningham on the Federated Wiki, adding image‑processing efficiency analysis and unit‑tested frontend features. Based in Boulder, Michael advises impact investors, entrepreneurs, and product teams aiming to scale sustainable, circular solutions and often offers pro bono engagements where mission and craft align.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at University of California, Santa Barbara
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
coffeescript10
image-processing10
algorithms9
front-end-development8
testing7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki
Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
This wiki innovates by: 1. federated sharing, 2. drag refactoring and 3. data visualization.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the development of an "Efficiency" plugin for the wiki. Their work involved implementing algorithms to calculate a "pattern efficiency" from image data, likely using JavaScript and potentially Coffeescript, which involved image processing and calculation logic. The user worked on the frontend to display the plugin results, integrating various functions, and including unit tests, showcasing an understanding of the project's architecture. The contributions also included iterative testing of the algorithms with data.
visualizationsharingrefactoringdata-visualizationwiki
SourceCell/emergency_info_demo1
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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