Richard Harris
Senior Software Engineer at QuotaPath
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Harris is a Senior Software Engineer based in Chicago with 10 years of full-stack experience spanning Ruby on Rails, React, Python, Go, and AWS-driven architectures. He excels at delivering pragmatic technical leadership—scoping projects, designing plans, and shipping features—while also stepping into incident leadership and on-call roles to keep production systems resilient. His background includes performance work (e.g., 100x query speedups and caching reductions of up to 95% on calendar integrations), large-scale migrations (ActiveJob Redis→SQS) and integrations across Jira, Slack, and multiple ticketing systems. Richard has managed small teams and run greenfield initiatives to onboard thousands of customers, but prefers hands-on full-stack engineering over roles dominated by data engineering. He pairs a public-policy graduate perspective with practical product instincts, often bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders to shape maintainable, user-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Policy, Public Policy, Master of Public Policy, Public Policy at Georgetown UniversityHigh School, High School at Whitney M Young High SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Japanese Studies at Earlham College
Japanese
Github Skills (24)
pnpm7
api7
php6
swagger6
python6
elixir6
elm6
java6
dependabot6
lcg6
dotnet6
rubygems6
golang5
rust5
go5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
richardjonathonharris/various_dot_files
Aug 2016 - May 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
ascent-technologies/ascent-style-guide
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
Ascent's internal styleguides
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
cssascentstyleguidesinternal
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