Shane Harter
Founder at Cronitor
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorShane Harter is an engineering leader and founder with 15 years of experience building reliable, production-grade infrastructure and developer tools from San Francisco. As founder of Cronitor, he helps teams monitor and manage background jobs, websites, and APIs, drawing on deep operational experience from leadership roles at Zillow Group and Trulia where he directed large engineering teams and product integrations. He combines hands-on backend craftsmanship — evidenced by early open-source work like a PHP daemon framework — with strategic program leadership, hiring, and performance initiatives. Known for turning ad-hoc scripts into fault-tolerant, low-latency systems, he excels at bridging product requirements and engineering execution to deliver scalable, observable systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
3,275reputation
550kreached
31answers
21questions
Github Skills (11)
daemon10
php10
api10
daemons10
apidoc10
object-oriented-programming9
api-design8
mysql8
string-interpolation6
linux6
ruby6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
shaneharter/PHP-Daemon
Jan 2011 - May 2018
Build production-ready Daemons using PHP 5.3+. Build fault-tolerant applications without the boilerplate.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:350 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Shane was involved in the initial setup and design of a PHP-based daemon application. Their work included creating core daemon functionality, adding features such as a timer, and incorporating signal handling. The contributions involved implementing API endpoints and adding more advanced functionality such as recursive hashing, and database interaction.
fault-tolerantdaemonsboilerplatephp-5production-ready
cronitorio/monitor-github-actions
Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
Add monitoring and logging to your Github Actions
Contributions:2 releases, 34 commits, 8 PRs in 7 days
monitoringlogging
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