John Harris
Lead Developer at MediaNews Group
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Harris is a Lead Developer in Denver with 11 years of full-stack experience building enterprise and open-source web applications. He specializes in JavaScript ecosystems—Angular, Ionic, and Node.js—while also bringing .NET experience from earlier roles at TVA. At MediaNews Group he progressed from Senior Full Stack Developer to Lead Developer, demonstrating strong delivery and leadership across newsroom and publishing systems. Comfortable across front-end, back-end, and infrastructure concerns, he combines pragmatic engineering with an appreciation for secure, maintainable code grounded in his Computer Science and Information Security background. A self-described “lover of JavaScript,” he pairs hands-on implementation with mentoring and cross-team collaboration to move projects from prototype to production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science Information Security and Assurance, BS, Computer Science Information Security and Assurance at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Github Skills (20)
node-application9
typescript7
nodejs5
vscode4
abstraction4
typescript-compiler3
relational-model3
ts-node3
relational3
webpack3
tslint3
security2
data-abstraction2
command-line-tool2
javascript1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
stoic-dev/ts-web-app-starter
Jun 2019 - Jan 2020
Starter project for a Typescript Web application.
Contributions:23 commits, 7 PRs, 20 pushes in 7 months
typescript
stoic-dev/ts-node-app-starter
Jun 2019 - Apr 2021
Starter project for a Typescript node application.
Contributions:19 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 11 months
node-applicationtypescript
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