Harry Schwartz
Consultant at testdouble
Vancouver, British Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Schwartz is a consultant with 15 years of experience who blends deep academic training in computer science and mathematics with practical engineering at firms including Google, thoughtbot, and testdouble. He focuses on programming language theory, distributed systems, and formal verification, favoring languages like Ruby and Lisp as well as strongly typed systems. A committed mentor and educator, he organizes Emacs meetups and maintains a distinctive technical blog that reflects both curiosity and pedagogy. Based in Vancouver, he brings a research-informed perspective to real-world system design and reliability. Outside of code he’s an avid outdoorsman, which he credits for fueling creativity and clear thinking.
15 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at The College of William and MaryCertificate, Digital Design, Certificate, Digital Design at Pennsylvania College of Art and DesignBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at Ursinus College
Github Skills (81)
vegan10
bash10
ruby10
quantile10
ruby-client10
x-plane10
thunderbird10
mod-manager10
textual10
emacs10
markov-model10
mu4e10
git10
elfeed10
tf-idf10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hrs/bringhurst
Jun 2016 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 4 years
hrs/sensible-defaults.el
Nov 2015 - May 2022
A simple, modular collection of better Emacs default settings.
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 7 months
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