Paul Harris
Software Engineer at Australian Centre for Geomechanics
Greater Perth Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Harris is a seasoned Software Engineer based in the Greater Perth Area with 17 years of experience delivering robust backend solutions, currently engineering software at the Australian Centre for Geomechanics. He brings deep C/C++ systems expertise and a pragmatic focus on stability and build reliability, evidenced by contributions to core open-source projects like libarchive and the widely used Jansson JSON library. Paul has modernized build systems (including CMake), improved cross-platform compatibility (MSVC fixes), and resolved subtle encoding, assertion and compile-time issues that reduce production risk. He also maintains and hardens Conan package recipes for many critical C++ libraries, showing attention to dependency management and reproducible builds. Colleagues rely on his knack for finding and fixing low-level edge cases that prevent segfaults and build regressions, making him a valuable behind-the-scenes stabilizer of complex software ecosystems.
17 years of coding experience
The University of Western Australia
Chinese
Github Skills (27)
dependency-management10
json10
debug10
c-language10
archiving10
package-management10
conan10
testing10
build-system10
cmake10
c1110
c1710
cprogramming-language10
qt9
libxml29
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
conan-io/conan-center-index
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 43 commits, 170 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of recipes within the ConanCenter repository. Their work involved modifying build configurations and dependencies for various C++ libraries such as wayland, Qt, Boost, libsodium, libxml2, pango, libwebp, and others, as well as updating the corresponding CMake files. The user addressed issues related to build processes, dependency management, and compiler compatibility, ensuring the packages could be built and used correctly within the Conan package manager. In addition, they bumped dependencies and introduced patches to resolve known bugs.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
akheron/jansson
Jun 2012 - Jun 2013
C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data
Role in this project:Backend Developer & Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 2 comments, 1 issue in 1 year
Contributions summary:Paul primarily focused on refactoring and enhancing the build system for the Jansson library. Their contributions include fixing bugs related to data type comparisons, adapting the build system for CMake, and adjusting configuration files to disable features handled by the new build system. Furthermore, they addressed MSVC2010 compatibility issues and adjusted the CMake configuration for building debug versions, streamlining the development process.
decodingc-libraryc99encodingjson-data
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