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
June 2023 - Present
- 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%
- Pioneered a back end Golang process that in under 20 minutes identifies mentions of 36,000 Peer Insights entities across 70,000 Peer Community posts while ensuring context-sensitive results aligned with product requirements
- Regularly communicated technical designs to engineering peers and showcased new features to leadership, product managers, and design teams
- 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
- Engineered and deployed a bespoke live polling feature for conferences, facilitating immediate engagement and feedback from thousands of attendees
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
