Phil Harnish
Senior Staff Software Engineer at YouTube
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Harnish is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 17 years building rich, standards-driven interactive web applications, currently shaping frontend experiences at YouTube. He combines deep expertise in semantics, web standards, and UI/branding with a pragmatic history of freelance and lead web development dating back to the early 2000s. Phil’s background includes hands-on systems tooling and automation from an Amazon internship and a track record of coordinating web teams and prototypes across startups and service providers. Comfortable across design and engineering, he brings a rare mix of visual sensibility and technical rigor informed by an interdisciplinary academic foundation in computer science, math, and Asian studies.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Computer Science, Computer Science Major, Math Major, Japanese Minor, Asian Studies Minor, Honors Computer Science, Computer Science Major, Math Major, Japanese Minor, Asian Studies Minor at Purdue University
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Github Skills (18)
favicon10
js-framework8
youtube8
javascript8
googlebot6
seo6
vscode5
vscode-extension5
visual-studio-code5
testing4
golang4
visual-studio4
behavior-driven-development4
python3
unit-testing3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
PhilHarnish/playerground
Dec 2008 - Jun 2009
Contributions:48 commits in 6 months
esbie/ichigo
Dec 2008 - Jul 2011
Contributions:19 commits in 2 years 7 months
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