Mike Harris
Principal Architect at Beterra Health
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolMike Harris is a Principal Architect with 11 years of hands-on experience designing scalable web and data systems, currently leading architecture at Beterra Health after roles improving hiring platforms at Fountain and ETL/search performance at Invoca. He combines backend performance work—optimizing ETL, Elasticsearch ingestion, and low-level memory allocations—with front-end UX improvements and platform-level redesigns to make complex systems resilient under growth. At Cerner he built data-aggregation and recommendation tooling for clinical configuration, often bridging disparate systems and making insights consumable for analysts and clients. A pragmatic polyglot, he has shipped native Ruby extensions using Rust/Helix and contributed notable performance and feature enhancements to open-source projects like the Go excelize library and the jQuery UI Multiselect widget. Based in Kansas City and drawing on prior technical leadership in the Army, he pairs disciplined systems thinking with a penchant for cooking and community-maintained software.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Missouri-Kansas CityAssociate's Degree AAS - Electronics Technology, Associate's Degree AAS - Electronics Technology at Cochise College
English
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Github Skills (20)
unit-testing10
xlsx10
javascript10
jquery10
spreadsheet10
uid10
go10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
algorithm9
ui-design9
css9
user-interface8
openxml8
graphical-user-interface8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ehynds/jquery-ui-multiselect-widget
Mar 2016 - Aug 2022
jQuery UI MultiSelect widget
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 117 commits in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the jQuery UI MultiSelect widget. Their work involved implementing new features, such as the ability to return unchecked items, and modifying existing functionality. The user also updated and expanded the unit tests to ensure the widget's behavior aligns with the intended functionality. Furthermore, the user fixed several issues and improved the widget's CSS to prevent printing of the select options.
jquery-uimultiselect
qax-os/excelize
Dec 2018 - Oct 2019
Go language library for reading and writing Microsoft Excel™ (XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / XLTX) spreadsheets
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 14 PRs, 129 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the excelize Go library, adding new features and optimizing existing functionality. Their work included implementing support for features like flipping outline summaries and setting cell float precision. They also worked on performance improvements, such as pre-allocating memory and reducing allocations during write operations, and added benchmarks to track performance.
excelgo-languagexlsmxlsxmicrosoft
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