David Harris
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at guardsix (formerly Logpoint)
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Harris is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale systems, currently driving SRE work at guardsix from Copenhagen. An alumnus of the University of Illinois with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, he spent four impactful years as a Production Engineer at Meta, embedded across product and infrastructure teams to ensure reliability and capacity at scale. He brings a hybrid software/systems background with hands-on automation, testing, and documentation expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the well-known rust-cookbook where he implemented doc-test automation and added practical examples. Comfortable across cloud, CI/CD, and observability stacks, he emphasizes shipping testable, maintainable infrastructure rather than one-off fixes. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and thorough, blending large-company rigor with the curiosity of an open-source contributor. He maintains a public resume and portfolio, signaling a thoughtful approach to career visibility and reproducible work.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Mathematics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Spanish, Danish
Github Skills (14)
test-automation10
rust10
documentation9
build-script9
rs9
randomization9
random-string9
random-data9
github7
algorithms5
data-serialization4
serialization4
io4
networking3
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang-nursery/rust-cookbook
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
https://rust-lang-nursery.github.io/rust-cookbook
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer & Technical Writer
Automation Engineer & Technical WriterContributions:23 commits, 3 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 day
Contributions summary:David primarily focused on improving the testing and documentation aspects of the Rust cookbook. They implemented test automation by modifying the build process to generate doc tests for markdown files. Additionally, the user added new examples, like generating random RGB colors, demonstrating knowledge in areas like creating traits. They also updated and merged code, showcasing collaboration and potentially bug fixes in the build and book generation processes.
rust
dhharris/game_concept
Nov 2017 - Dec 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 58 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 1 month
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