Summary
Norman Harman is a pragmatic Senior Fullstack Software Engineer based in Austin with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems, DevOps tooling, and scalable data services using Python, PostgreSQL and Linux. He has led teams and ops as Director of Server Engineering, improved CI/CD and uptime at Broadway and Samba TV, and routinely automates processes to reduce bugs and human error. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Django APIs and Celery to AWS, Chef and monitoring—he pairs hands-on coding with systems engineering and on-call discipline. A former US Navy "can do" operator, he brings a practical, get-things-done mindset that spans soldering electronics to rolling out Atlassian at scale. Norman pushes continual improvement in himself and teams, preferring pragmatic solutions that make systems more resilient and maintainable.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas