Nathan Harris Email & Phone Number

United States

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Lead major project initiatives that represented 40% of Back Office app usage, steering entire team to deliver on planned projects.Collaborated with management to solve team challenges, such as training, inter-personal conflict, project opportunities, and more.Coached and mentored more junior engineers, as well as peers, across programming disciplines.Focused on overall app architecture as it relates to company-focused needs such as application monitoring, usage analytics, and fault tolerance. Initiatives included refactoring, documentation, and drafting recommendations for change.Participated in company-wide Architecture Alignment Group (AAG) to provide oversight on overall product technical direction.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Acted as an Individual Contributor to rebuild significant portions (representing 60%) of the Back Office app from one architecture (REST, Obj-C) into a new architecture (GraphQL, Swift). Lead several projects to complete initiative, while directing other team members to contribute towards the project.Notable projects include:- Price Override- Offline Mode- Order History- All-Day Manifest- Tipping- Activity CalendarHeavily involved in hiring and team growth, establishing practices and standards for the team.Rebuilt infrastructure and established practices for application monitoring and incident response.Represented the team and organization when working with software vendors, contributing code review feedback and code submissions.Simplified build process and CI tools to drop build times by 15%, with optimized builds seeing 50% improvement.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Over the course of my tenure at Globant, I have played the role as Team Lead, Individual Contributor, and Principal Engineer.Projects included eCommerce, education, media streaming, and real-time simulations.Assisted in DevOps tasks in addition to normal Software Engineering responsibilities.Founded a skills incubation program for cross-functional team members to gain experience working in Unity and game development.

Bothell, Washington, Us

Assembled service parts as part of the Service Parts Manufacturing paint department and completed work orders as scheduled by the team lead & supervisor.Assembly processes ranged anywhere from applying decals, to inserting bearings, and bolting several components together to complete individual parent-level parts to kits.Overhead Hoist certified.Training and experience as:- Powder Coat Painter- Acid WasherAs production needs change, assisted in the Assembly department for more complex assembly processes.

Bothell, Washington, Us

Principal Engineer of the Parts Operations Management System (POMS) business tools suite project.In charge of all elements of the Software Development Life Cycle, with cooperation with the business segment's IT team for code reviews and back-end infrastructure (the SQL Server).Communicated regularly with end users to develop user cases and training of developed software.

Bothell, Washington, Us

Assisted manager’s forecast of production needs and review of production benchmarks by gathering and presenting targeted metrics. Generated data backlog when none existed prior.This position was a secondary set of responsibilities in conjunction with my software development role.

Bothell, Washington, Us

Authored documentation using Wikipedia's MediaWiki software on the company's intranet and audited production processes to ensure service parts are manufactured in the most safe, efficient, and high quality way possible.Worked with management to address production issues and retrain team members on new or old processes. Reviewed Bill of Materials (BOM) and Engineering drawings for accuracy regularly.Learned and applied understanding of engineering principles on a daily basis such, as Process at a Glance write-ups and engineering specifications.

Owned and operated production studio for creating primarily video game entertainment.Managed several projects with different sized and staffed teams, ranging from 2 people to 12.Was responsible for all business efforts needed by a small business operation: PR, marketing, programming, hiring, designing, research, etc.

In addition to previous responsibilities as a freelance writer, I assisted the Editor-in-Chief in editing and scheduling content.

Authored editorial articles providing my opinion on specific events within the video game industry, or a specific game title, and reported on any industry-wide news pieces.Conducted personal research on topics, as well as traveled and attended industry conventions.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Game Programming

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Advancing Computer Science

Certificate Of Completion, Computer Science