Harrison Borges

Lead Software Engineer

Full Stack Engineer with 10+ years of experience. I’ve spent the majority of the past decade working on full stack web systems and infrastructure. These days I’m most confident writing Go or Node.js, but I have extensive experience with Ruby on Rails as well. In my free time, I enjoy building simple data visualization websites and exploring New York City by bike.

📍 Brooklyn, New York

Skills

Work Experience

Kontango

Lead Software Engineer, Full Stack

July 2023 - July 2024

Chemical commoditiy trading intelligence platform. Built with Go, HTMX, and Templ. Deployed with Ansible to an EC2 instance.

• Worked closely with the product team and other stakeholders to develop a high-level product roadmap, breaking down complex features into manageable engineering tasks
• Led implementation of ISO-27001 compliance efforts which spanned infrastructure and application development
• Architected and implemented modern web application stack that significantly reduced complexity and improved developer productivity
• Developed pair-programming culture. Implemented workflow tools and processes to support a small team of engineers and product managers

Sodality Technologies (Ping App)

Lead Software Engineer, Backend

November 2021 - July 2023

Founding engineer. Location-based social network. Built with Flutter, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, and GraphQL. Deployed to Heroku and GCP.

• Built several key backend components including a GraphQL API, a CMS for content teams, and image-processing micro services
• Streamlined the development and deployment process with a CI/CD pipeline, significantly reducing the transition time from development to production
• Oversaw backend infrastructure, highlighted by the creation of a graph-traversal friend recommendation system and a contact analysis pipeline

Freshly

Senior DevOps Engineer

December 2019 - November 2021

• Developed a CD pipeline on Google Cloud Platform using Go, surpassing Heroku feature set with advanced capabilities such as canary deployment rollouts
• Deconstructed Heroku-deployed Rails monolith into microservices running on GCP’s managed Kubernetes service
• Performed a seamless migration of a ~500GB database from Heroku to GCP Cloud SQL within two hour maintenance window
• Designed an infrastructure-as-code pipeline with Terraform Cloud, managing a variety of applications including a Rails monolith, and Ruby & Go microservices

Senior Software Engineer, Full Stack

December 2017 - December 2019

High-volume meal delivery service e-commerce platform. Built with Ruby on Rails and React.

• Helped scale engineering team from 5 to 30+ engineers with process and technology improvements
• Made significant contributions to the Rails monolith, React frontends, and the iOS app
• Led the development of a new meal-picker experience, collaborating closely with product and design teams while successfully introducing React architecture into an existing Rails monolith

Verve Mobile

Software Engineer, Full Stack

May 2013 - November 2017

Ad-tech platforms built in Ruby on Rails and React

• Kick-started software career from a manual QA role, creating a Node.js automation suite that significantly enhanced test speed and accuracy
• Demonstrated rapid technical proficiency, transitioning into the platform engineering team where I developed several tools, including a validation suite for ad performance in production-like environments
• Led the full lifecycle of a project from hackathon concept to production, delivering a comprehensive ad-management dashboard used daily by large business clients

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