Michael Harris

Software engineer with 3.5 years of professional experience delivering custom CMS implementations for universities and colleges in a SaaS environment using JavaScript, PHP, C#, and XML.

Outside of my day-to-day work, I am a Linux kernel contributor focused on driver development within the IIO staging subsystem. Passionate about systems architecture, hardware-software interfaces, and writing clean, maintainable C.

I am currently seeking new opportunities. While my professional background is in web development, I am open to all programming prospects, with a particular interest in Linux Kernel development.

Linux Kernel Contributions

• Kernel Git Log
• Authored and submitted C patches to the Linux Kernel staging subsystem, following LKML standards
• Modernized the ADT7316 staging driver's power management by converting deprecated APIs to current kernel interfaces, improving code readability and safety

Experience

• Engineered custom JavaScript tools to migrate complex web content for 15+ universities and colleges, often meeting with clients to talk through issues and expectations first-hand
• Translated existing web elements to function with the Modern Campus CMS, saving clients 20+ hours of manual editing work
• Boosted migration quality by leveraging AI (Codex) to scan hundreds of pages for structural patterns, proactively identifying edge cases and saving 10+ hours per week in manual testing

• Implemented custom frontend designs into SaaS Modern Campus CMS for 20+ universities and colleges using XML, PHP, C#, and ColdFusion to surpass client expectations
• Developed custom backend solutions to satisfy complex and non-standard client requirements
• Optimized team's development workflow across 19 contributions to internal company codebases which resolved bugs, added new features, created new tools, and ported PHP/C# tooling to ColdFusion

Skills

• C | Bash | Python | Git | Make
• Linux Kernel API & LKML Standards
• Data Structures & Algorithms

• HTML | CSS | JavaScript | TypeScript | PHP | C# | jQuery | SQL

Education