# Harp B. > Senior Engineer at Scribe | Ex-Tesla Location: Oakland, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harp A highly-talented software developer with hands-on experience in development of web application (front & back end) and implementation of software on the basis of employer’s requirement: a true Jedi master in the art of software engineering. I enjoy working in a multi-tasking and agile development environment and have good technical, analytical and communication skills. Specialties: Python, JavaScript, HTML5 Web Applications, LESS, MySql ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Scribe Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area ✓ Collaborate with Product and Design to develop Pages, a core product differentiator for Scribe’s exponential growth. Built with NextJS/React, TypeScript, Python/Django, DRF. ✓ Scope and release multi-quarter long projects into deliverable milestones for App Tag Taxonomy, OpenAPI, Workspace redesign. ✓ Develop internal tools to increase efficiency of Customer Support, Engineers and Sales. ✓ Define python testing standards to reduce suite run-time from 30 minutes to 5 minutes and increase code coverage. ✓ Optimize Restful API and SQL queries to reduce AWS costs, and improve response time and reliability. ### Tech Lead, Senior Python Engineer @ Zumper Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ✓ Tech lead for landlord tools for publishing properties, collecting rent, screening renters, and managing leases. ✓ Proactively drive improvements and optimizations to internal products reliability in relation to market data. ✓ Tech lead, build, test, and release product-facing features for CI/CD pipeline managing leads with stringent correctness and scalability requirements. ✓ Improve code reliability by creating a team culture for unit and integration testing with emphasis on long-term maintainability. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Tesla Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ✓ Tech lead on scalable financial webapps with Angular front-end and Python/Django back-end for APIs and admin tools. ✓ Orchestrate loan application microservice api to connect Tesla Energy lenders with our internal teams - Python/Django on AWS with Celery/RabbitMQ for asynchronous data synchronization. ✓ Author asynchronous, paperless contract generation microservice in .NET using RabbitMQ for high-availability network applications and services. ### Web Software Engineer @ SolarCity Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ✓ Make key architecture, code and tech decisions when engineering and developing a breand new webapp for our investors. Echarts with Angular Components for stats visualization and django rest framework for API. ✓ Integrate third party software for Solar Bonds platform to deploy 1099s to our customers. ✓ Employ efficient Django ORM integration to improve ach transaction and payment generation from hours to minutes while making code more readable. ✓ Expand test coverage and reduce tests run-time from 1 hour to just 12 minutes. ✓ Develop info graphics using AngularJS and eCharts to visualize state of an investor's portfolio. ### Senior Tools Engineer @ KIXEYE Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 ✓ Employ Python, Flask and SQLAlchemy stack for exposing MySQL Database via our RESTful web APIs. Consume web APIs using AngularJS in conjunction with Lo-Dash and AMD architecture. ✓ Mold multiple internal APIs with varying response format into a consistent and uniform behavior across all of the games. ✓ Advocate consistent organization across multiple projects within the team; group application tests by type: unit, integration and system. ✓ Synchronize Transifex translations to S3 buckets for web access and Git repository for versioning. Automate the process using TeamCity, Python and bash scripting. ✓ Assemble a boto client for provisioning EC2 instance in a VPC using Puppet configuration. ### Founder @ HarpB Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Imagine and develop user friendly applications for the everyday problems. ✓ Develop a Continuous Integration pipeline using TeamCity to ensure quality code between releases. ✓ Design and architect multiple web ventures on numerous domains under a single managed infrastructure: DomainScrapbook.com, Vincier.com, and VineApp.tv. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Socialize, Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ✓ Develop an efficient client REST API which handles 9.8 million requests per day. ✓ Refactor raw SQL queries, tuned indices on MySQL tables and optimized Django code to improve web server performance (average response time for 1.5M requests went from 1.1 second to 99ms). ✓ Employ rigorous unit testing (using mock objects) and integration testing environment backed with a central integration system to ensure high source code quality. ✓ Deploy code to EC2 environments in an automated environment centered on fabric, puppet and git. ✓ Saved company weeks of development time by writing an internal API using Tastypie and moving away from piston. ✓ Deliver a comment moderation system powered by jQuery and Ajax. ✓ Configure a central logging system to monitor real-time performance of all servers using Splunk to gain insight into the architecture’s overall status. ### Student programmer @ San Jose State University Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 Create C/C++ graphic applications with GLUT and OpenGL. Wrap my head around a large and complicated existing software code to design new features or fix exiting bugs in the code Create graphical objects to move about the screen to specific motion trajectories, speed and timing of presentation of objects: lines, spheres, words Worked on my own without the need for assistance and provide solution to my employer's software problems ### Student Technician @ San Jose State University Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 ### Webmaster @ VidsHome.com Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 A real-life AJAX Web application with PHP, SQL and MySQL, Apache, and Linux environment in the back-end. Independently develop a single page DHTML web application using Prototype JavaScript Framework, CSS and Ajax techniques. Use my expertise to design web layout in Adobe Photoshop and implement the user interface in HTML/CSS Write scripts in PHP for mining YouTube for videos and user information Peri.me ## Education ### Bachelors of Science in Computer Science San José State University Jan 2006 – Jan 2010 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harp-b-33a45322 - Website: http://harpb.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/harp JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harp/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22