About Me

My name is Ryan Harris and I'm a professional software developer. I graduated from UCLA in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in computer science. During my time at UCLA, I trained primarily in C++ before accepting a Java deveoper role at Teradata. I worked as a Java developer for Teradata between 2012 and 2017. In 2017 I left software development behind to pursue some other interests, but ultimately decided to return back to programming in 2020.

The product we made at Teradata was called Teradata Studio, which was a GUI desktop application for database administration, SQL query development, data transfers, and manageement tasks for Teradata, Aster, and Hadoop databases. During my time there I developed a wide variety of features, including an enhanced SQL editor, a data transfer feature, file input and output for loading/exporting tables, wizards to assist users to create/modify database schemas, users, and other objects, and Hadoop connectivity. In addition to writing Java, I also managed the team's automated build and testing environments using Teamcity and Git. I led the effort to migrate our code base from Subversion to Git while preserving all the Subversion commit history (and there were years of it!). I also setup and managed Hadoop clusters for development and testing purposes.