Harrison Katz Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

San Francisco, CA, US

Working as a Senior Engineer at ngrok Harrison worked to create a Developer Platform, improve Infrastructure upgrades through automation, and implemented SSO security across the organization

New York, NY, US

Staff Cloud Infrastructure Engineer and SRE helping develop our Developer Productivity Platform and focusing on broad enablement of Observability tooling via DataDog and Vector technologies.

New York, NY, US

• Prioritized the direction on a large team with one direct report as a Tech Lead with domain over our Kubernetes platforms, capacity planning, and team processes/automations
• Maintained, with full ownership, multiple high availability on-prem bare metal and hybrid cloud Kubernetes and GKE clusters used as the compute platform for Squarespace’s engineering organization
• Built, maintained, and monitored large-scale Kubernetes operators’ code bases in Golang; as well as their CLI tooling, alerting infrastructure, and dashboards
• Onboarded the first team at Squarespace onto Google Cloud and coordinated the cloud adoption efforts throughout the infrastructure organization with documentation, runbooks, monitoring & alerting practices, training.
• Engineered the architecture for a fully reliable multi-service media processesing pipeline running on Google Cloud using services such asGKE, GCS, and CLB with tooling such as Terraform, Drone CI/CD, and Docker
• Developed and supported a templating and deployment tool for Kubernetes and Helm used by all engineers to reliably deploy services

Atlanta, GA, US

• Researched and developed a tool for importing AutoCAD DXF files into our data model using Python
• Designed and implemented a fully autonomous scheduling system which replaces application level cronjobs and includes verbose error handling and debugging using Perl
• Redesigned and implemented full systems into our core product such as Authentication, Session Management, User Messaging, and Asset Management using PHP
• Architected, diagrammed, and implemented our product’s network infrastructure for AWS and coordinated the move of our willing customers
• Orchestrated and administered 25+ CentOS Linux servers across different cloud environments
• Researched, orchestrated, and implemented a new Git workflow with a suite of commit hooks and “the G script” using Bash

Atlanta, GA, US

• Built a homegrown build tool system for our internal product using Perl
• Researched and implemented a “standard profile” for developers’ tools including vim, bash, and git using Puppet
• Created a set of coding standards and integrated them into our commit and deploy process for PHP, Perl, and Javascript
• Developed multiple crons to help automate JIRA, Git, and Tempo Timesheets workflows using Perl
• Developed various cronjobs and system scripts for developers including reminders, cli tools, and site-reliability jobs using Bash
• Researched and implemented a SAML based authentication system for our product using PHP

Atlanta, GA, US

• Designed, engineered, and developed a mobile application for event voting and coordination called VoMeGo using Android
• Responsible for the redesign and development of a FreshBooks mobile application called Nead Money using Android
• Helped develop a mobile web-based rating application for the Georgia Aquarium called Critiquestr using PHP

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Checking Rooms to Ensure AV Equipment Works, Cleaning/ Replacing Projectors, Helping Solve Issues with AV Systems

Worked summers and throughout the school year:- Diagnosing and solving minor computer problems- Imaging new computers- Maintaining inventory- Moving and cleaning hardware- Installing hardware, software and wiring

Helped lead and guide 90+ scouts in various activities during meetings and campouts.

Worked as a student researcher on the Amigo Bot Localization AI project with Dr. Preshant Doshi, University of Georgia, while attending North Oconee High School

- Organized Weekly Scout Meetings with Activities- Planned the Yearly Scouting Calendar with Trips- Managed and Lead 80-120 Boys (ages 11-18) Weekly and on Camping Trips- Delegated Tasks to Assistants Senior Patrol Leaders, Assistant Scoutmasters, and Patrol Leaders- Organized and Lead Monthly Patrol Meetings to Plan Future Month Meetings- Facilitated.

Designed the new Troop 537 Website ( http://www.troop537bsa.org/ ) as well as helped organize presentations about new features for the site, such as photo uploads.

Guided, taught, and helped lead campers (ages 7-14) through 2, two-week camp seminars.

Assisted the Senior Patrol Leader with their duties such as:- Planning Camping Trips- Leading Meetings- Leading Activities- Organizing Events

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Dual Enrollment Program, Computer Science

High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates