John Harrison Email & Phone Number

United States

Full-stack web development building and maintaining TechSmart's teaching and learning platform for K-12 coding education.My daily work involves:- Collaboration with colleagues on the platform and curriculum development teams.- Delivering new features that delight students, teachers, and school districts who rely on our platform to educate and learn.- Troubleshooting issues and fixing bugs as they arise- Full-stack software development with Python, Django, JavaScript, Vue.js, and various other programming languages, tools, and systems.- Working in a high-velocity development cycle to continuously deploy improvements and respond proactively to teacher feedback, feature requests, and production issues.

Lynnwood, Washington, United States

Teaching youth ages 4-16 how to climb, with an emphasis on setting personal goals, having fun, and staying safe.

Seattle, Wa

Designed and developed a web application used at KEXP as part of the station's digital media asset library. This tool is currently in daily use at KEXP and significantly improves archival and on-air programming workflows.- full-stack web development (Angular, Django, PostgreSQL...)- integration with enterprise Media Asset Management (MAM) APIs- audio processing; identification of unknown audio sources- audio/music metadata processing- user research, UX design- Agile development, with an emphasis on testing and CI/CD

Seattle, Wa

- Developed HTTP REST API and backend services in Flask/Python- Developed operations, alerting, and monitoring tools used in managing large noSQL database-as-a-service clusters- On call incident response, root cause analysis, and automation

Seattle, Wa

For our capstone project at the UW iSchool, my team and I partnered with KEXP to design and implement a web application that provides new tools for DJs and production staff to work with and explore KEXP's massive music library of over 70,000 albums and releases.I served as Project Manager and developer for this project.

Seattle

Seattle, Washington

Teaching Assistant in the department of Computer Science for the UW's introductory programming series- Led weekly lessons supplementing lecture materials- Supervised weekly lab sessions to build students' programming experience in Java- Graded homework assignments, midterms, and final exams