# Harry Thompson > Senior Software Engineer @ Kandji Location: Madison, Wisconsin, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/harrythompson Interested in interesting problems and I love to learn. I enjoy creating engaging digital experiences that build meaningful connections for clients and customers. Let's make beautiful things for your clients or customers together! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Kandji Jan 2023 – Present Engineer #1 on the EDR team - Built a variety of high-volume (hundreds of millions of messages) microservices utilizing Kafka, Python, PostgreSQL - Created a first-of-its-kind Python Kafka tracing library ### Software Engineer @ Kandji Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 Kandji is an Apple device management (MDM) solution built exclusively for IT teams at organizations that run on Apple. Kandji is a modern, cloud-based platform for centrally managing and securing your Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple TV devices, saving IT teams countless hours of manual, repetitive work with features like one-click compliance templates and 150+ pre-built automations, apps, and workflows. ### Software Engineer @ Rentable (formerly ABODO) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Madison, Wisconsin Area Worked on various teams from Implementations and Growth to now a founding member of the Platform team. Some of my achievements so far include: • Creating innovative greenfield full-stack applications Rentify and Virtulease with Ruby on Rails, Typescript, and React, redefining the current lead-based renting model into a self-service user- focused suite of information. • Architecting a web-scale Data Pipeline in AWS SQS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, and SNS for web scrap- ing and parsing in our comparative pricing platform tool • Replacing our outdated customer admin with a modern React application for customers to effectively input complicated media. • Developing a versionless API with caching, query generation, filtering, and pagination for a large Rails application democratizing big data at scale. • Training and deploying a collaborative filtering machine learning personalization service based on user behavioral data. • Architecting and implementing a scalable microservice machine learning server architecture. • Training and deploying a convolutional neural network for recognizing traits in property pho- tographs. • Developing a testing environment for Javascript using Jest, reducing CI test time 500%. ### Lead Software Developer @ Goods Unite Us Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Madison, Wisconsin Engineer #1, scaled the companies product from pre-seed to highly successful Series A rounds. • Designed, developed, and deployed multiple websites, applications, cloud databases, and search indexes. • Refactored the web tech stack to React and Typescript, handled over 600% new user growth. • Architected a Data Pipeline that included a fault-tolerant statistics API in Rust alongside a web scraper in Java using Spring. • Built an e-commerce website with over 100,000 products and refactored SQL queries to reduce per shop page load times from a base of 70 seconds to 2 seconds. • Developed an auto-scaling, fault-tolerant, and easy to manage Nginx, MariaDB, PHP, and SPI Firewall stack for CentOS that served the Woocommerce store with Memcached, Redis, Google Pagespeed Module, and multi-level caching static assets for under $ 45 per month. • Deployed servers for bug tracking and project management with Agile kanban and version control integration, email management systems, and multiple staging replications of the live website that built on version control flags. • Wrote all onboarding, technical due diligence, and architecture documentation • Technologies used: Typescript, PHP, Java, Rust, React, Nginx, MySQL ### Software Developer @ Goods Unite Us Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Madison, Wisconsin Area ### Freelance Web Developer @ Freelance, self-employed Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Greater Milwaukee Area • Developed fully responsive websites either custom ground up or using template/framework utilities. • Maintained clear and consistent communication to ensure the best possible results. • Used up-to-date SEO techniques to ensure better search results. • Tested across top browsers and devices for wide accessibility. • Utilized online resources to troubleshoot and Git for version control. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science University of Wisconsin-Madison ### Full Stack Web Development in Computer Software Engineering Free Code Camp Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/harristhompson - Website: https://harrisjt.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/harrythompson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/harrythompson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22