Yana Harris
Principal Engineer Agentic & Conversational AI Systems
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYana Harris is a Principal Engineer who blends 11+ years of front-end and distributed systems expertise with deep specialization in agentic and conversational AI for enterprise HR and employee experience. She designs and owns end-to-end agentic platforms—connecting authoring, retrieval, reasoning, safe action execution, observability, and UI—while prioritizing customer-centered safety, auditability, and human-in-the-loop governance. Her background at Amazon, Netflix, Cisco, and Microsoft reflects a rare mix of prototyping speed, scalable micro-front-end architecture, and design-system stewardship. Yana is a hands-on front-end engineer and open-source contributor (notably to a Momentum UI library), fluent in LitElement, React/TypeScript, and component-driven platforms. She’s known for translating ambiguous product needs into concrete, testable prototypes that expose failure modes and shape trustworthy agent behavior. Based in Kirkland, WA, she focuses on making complex AI agents predictable and useful for real employees, not just technically capable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate Computer Science, Graduate Certificate Computer Science at Stanford University School of EngineeringMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Ecommerce & Web Development, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Ecommerce & Web Development at City St George’s, University of London
English, Russian
Github Skills (11)
lit-element10
uid10
javascript10
web-components10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
sc9
scs9
jtest8
jes8
jestjs8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
momentum-design/momentum-ui
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Momentum UI is a collection of UI libraries for implementing Momentum Design into web applications and websites.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:235 reviews, 24 commits, 141 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Yana primarily contributes to the `momentum-ui` repository by implementing and modifying UI components, particularly within the context of web components. Their work involves adding, updating, and testing various elements like buttons, checkboxes, menu overlays, and tabs. The commits demonstrate an understanding of LitElement and the use of SCSS for styling, focusing on creating and refining the visual aspects of Momentum Design's UI libraries. Furthermore, the user has experience with the use of Jest and other testing framework for testing of those components.
momentumweb-applicationscssjavascriptdesign-system
yananym/office-ui-fabric-react
Oct 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
reactoffice-365experiencesreact-componentsfor-office
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