Robert Harris
Senior Data Visualization Developer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Harris is a Senior Data Visualization Developer based in San Francisco with 11 years focused on turning complex data into actionable, elegant visual stories. He has held senior visualization roles at Observable, Stitch Fix, Lyft, and Twitter, bringing product-driven aesthetics together with rigorous engineering practices. His background includes founding a media startup building real-time audio/video tools and long-term systems work at NASA Ames, where he contributed to autonomy languages like Apex and Plexil. That blend of research-grade tooling and startup pragmatism helps him craft visualizations that scale and communicate to diverse stakeholders. Colleagues value his ability to bridge low-level performance concerns with high-fidelity interactive design. He brings deep institutional memory across web visualization stacks and realtime systems, often surfacing subtle data-quality and cognitive-psychology insights in his work.
11 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (167)
plotly-dash10
python10
rigid-bodies10
gemma10
chartjs-plugin10
flask10
data-analytics10
data-viz10
react-component10
latex10
superset10
mistral10
golang10
data-visualization10
ollama10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
trebor/turtlesense
Sep 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:96 commits, 20 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
trebor/notebook-view
Mar 2019 - Mar 2020
Contributions:57 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 11 months
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