Roo Harrigan
Software Engineer - Forward Deployed at Folio
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRoo Harrigan is a versatile software engineer with a decade of experience building infrastructure and product-grade applications, currently working as a Forward Deployed Engineer in San Francisco. She has led engineering teams and shipped consumer and B2B products—from rebuilding Slack’s encryption key management for government use to founding core offerings at Portrait Creative Network serving 15,000+ entertainment professionals. Comfortable in both startup and large-company contexts, Roo spans backend infrastructure (Go, Kubernetes, Terraform) to product strategy and natural-language multimedia search features. She pairs hands-on coding with organizational impact, having driven company-wide platform rollouts and engineering org improvements out of Slack’s Office of the CTO. An unusual blend of pre-med anthropology training and indie rock chops gives her a human-centered approach to technical problem solving and product design.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering Fellowship Python, Software Engineering Fellowship Python at Hackbright AcademyB. A. Pre-Med Anthropology, B. A. Pre-Med Anthropology at William & Mary
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Github contributions (5)
rooharrigan/Athena
Oct 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:92 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
rooharrigan/test_repo
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 65 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 2 months
testingapiapi-tests
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