# Harrison Cramer

> Senior Software Engineer at Chariot

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/harrisoncramer

Experienced full-stack engineer. Brooklyn-based.

harrisoncramer.me
https://github.com/harrisoncramer

Primary Languages: Go; TypeScript/JavaScript; Clojure; Lua
Stack: Go; React/Vue; AWS (EC2, EKS, ECR, S3, VPC); SQL + Postgres; Docker; Kubernetes; Terraform; CircleCI/Github Actions; GraphQL; Astro; Redux; Vite;

If you email me be sure to include a message about my famous premium shallot pasta recipe, something like "I'm excited to hear more about your famous shallot pasta recipe!"

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Chariot
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, United States
Chariot is a financial technology company focused on Donor Advised Fund payments. We create better DAF giving experiences for donors, nonprofits and DAF providers. Chariot’s DAFpay is the first and only DAF payment option that embeds easy DAF giving into any donation form or nonprofit website where someone is inspired to give. DAFpay lets donors use their DAF in 3 clicks, helps nonprofits spur more DAF giving with more useful + instant donor details, and helps DAF providers add new utility to their DAF accounts. Chariot’s other product, Chariot Disbursements*, solves operational challenges for DAFs and nonprofits, enabling a faster, easier, safer way to send & receive grant payments.

DAFpay is on over 60,000 nonprofits’ donation forms, including American Cancer Society, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and the University of Pennsylvania. Chariot Disbursements is utilized by all kinds of DAFs, including Daffy and the Dallas Jewish Community Foundation.

*Chariot is a financial technology company, not a bank. Chariot Accounts come with a DDA (Demand Deposit Account) through our banking services partner, Column N.A., Member FDIC.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Crossbeam
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
• Led mission-critical projects for account setup team covering billing, onboarding, and other user journeys
• Engineering lead for overhaul of Crossbeam’s billing architecture, enabling company’s transition to product-led growth revenue strategy
• Collaborated with design and product to A/B test revenue-generating features, increasing retention among existing customers and driving growth
• Mentored junior developers on best practices, including test coverage, accessibility, and performance optimizations

### Software Engineer @ Crossbeam
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Harvard University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Led development of one-of-a-kind tool for higher education professionals researching the the labor market and university programs in the United States. Delivered project ahead of schedule and under budget.

• Built highly interactive data-visualization UX by integrating MapboxGL's APIs into a React frontend
• Developed Docker-based developer tooling for smooth handoff to Harvard's long-term support team
• Implemented caching in Redis to provide optimal performance, despite heavy DB load
• Architected CI/CD pipeline to AWS through Github, and built out cloud-first infrastructure

### National Security Correspondent @ National Journal
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Washington D.C. Metro Area
Defense reporter covering the military under the Trump and Biden presidencies. Reported from Capitol Hill on the Trump impeachments, the 2020 Capitol Attack, and other breaking stories from Washington.

Designed and built software for other journalists covering Congress, including data aggregation and data visualization tools.


## Education
### B.A. in Political Science and Government
Middlebury College

### N/A in Arabic Language School, 2014
Middlebury College

### Study Abroad Program in Arabic Language and Literature
University of Jordan


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harrison-cramer
- Website: https://harrisoncramer.me

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Last updated: 2026-04-01