Hi, I'm Harrison Miller.
ABOUT
I am a Software Engineer at Gartner. In December 2019 I graduated with my bachelors degree and in December 2020 graduated with my masters degree, both in computer science from the University at Albany, SUNY. I first started programming in my junior year of high school. Ever since I have adopted a wide variety of programming languages and frameworks to build my tech stack to what it is today.
Feel free to check out my resume or get in touch.
EXPERIENCE
Gartner
Software Engineer, Advanced
April 2025 - Present
- Led full-stack development initiatives for Gartner’s peer platforms, improving performance, scalability, and overall user experience
- Designed and implemented a custom events system featuring notifications, RSVP functionality, threaded discussions, admin-managed access controls, and configurable settings
- Expanded platform capabilities by enabling secure file uploads for user-generated posts, comments, and replies
- Developed a backend job to detect and map mentions of 36,000+ entities across 70,000+ user-generated posts, powering entity specific on-hover popups with context-aware accuracy
- Built and deployed a live polling feature for conferences, supporting real-time engagement and feedback from thousands of concurrent attendees
- Partnered closely with product managers and designers to groom user stories, refine requirements, and deliver features aligned with business goals
- Authored and maintained technical documentation to support ongoing development and onboarding
- Regularly maintained and communicated technical designs to engineering peers and showcased new features to leadership, product managers, and design teams
Gartner
Software Engineer
June 2023 - April 2025
- Developed cross-platform features that integrate Gartner’s homepage, Peer Community, and Peer Insights web applications
- Contributed to comprehensive Peer Insights tech stack overhaul combining a database migration, AWS account migration, application upgrade, and CI/CD rollout all into one reducing build and deployment times by 82%
- Optimized page load times in Peer Insights by relocating API requests to server-side execution, enhancing overall performance
- Streamlined AWS Lambda design pattern by implementing S3-based storage for function code, eliminating infrastructure redeployments and improving agility
Gartner
Associate Software Engineer
June 2021 - June 2023
- Took part in Gartner’s IT Rotational Program, a two year four rotation program used to explore a variety of tech stacks and business units throughout the company
- Advanced conversion of Peer Insights website to Next.js by creating foundational wrapper classes to seamlessly transfer legacy pages and handle routing
- Consolidated backend API’s and leveraged Elasticsearch to improve page load times on Peer Insights website
- Resolved dozens of critical level security vulnerabilities using AWS WAF rules, input sanitization, and npm and maven dependency management
- Frequently demonstrated product updates during team peer reviews and sprint demos to product owners, stakeholders, executives, and designers
- Unified various business teams data lakes by developing an Azure Data Factory pipeline that moves and transforms data from Azure Synapse Analytics to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
- Supervised and maintained data lake security through the use of access control lists and service principals in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
- Created infrastructure to allow business teams to leverage serverless technology in Azure Synapse Analytics and alleviate strain on other resources
- Authored python scripts and SQL stored procedures to facilitate the management of configuration files and tables for development team
University at Albany, SUNY
Graduate Research Assistant
June 2020 - May 2021
- Worked with a team of software developers and researchers on Knowledge Forum: an internationally distributed service meant to foster knowledge sharing between academic institutions and communities
- Utilized Cytoscape.js, an open-source graphing framework, to modernize and overhaul Knowledge Forum’s graph-view web interface
- Contributed to Cytoscape.js open-source extension “supportimages”, adding support for embedding videos in the graph itself
- Created a web application that supports single sign-on and provides easy navigation and unified displaying of otherwise different Knowledge Forum interfaces
- Used React.js to design and manufacture an interactive and responsive front-end web UI for both the single sign-on web application and the Cytoscape.js graph-view web interface
Jahnel Group
Forward Motion Intern
September 2018 - May 2019
- Participated in the firm’s “Forward Motion” internship program as a front-end software developer, primarily working on the company website
- Received Adobe XD design specifications from stakeholders and delivered mobile-responsive front-end web pages using Bootstrap 4
- Authored proof-of-concept serverless web application built atop AWS Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and S3
- Took on programming tasks directly from the CEO, working with senior developers to solicit code reviews and ensure use of best practices
- Engaged in company-wide weekly “code wars” challenges
