Harper Reid

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Engineering Manager at LinkedIn · Developer tools

LinkedIn
Miami, FL · ET (UTC-5)
10+ years experience
Kellogg School of Management
English
Co-founder
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Overview

Currently at LinkedIn, where I lead developer tools with a team of 27. Shipped 10 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback. Mentored 11 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with LSP and Rust.

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Skills
LSPVS Code extensionsTypeScriptRustcompilersCLI design
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a go-to-market co-founder for payroll for freight forwarders

The idea
Payroll for freight forwarders
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
4 years in developer tools
Looking for
Product-minded engineer
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Miami or remote

I bring 10 years of developer tools (currently LinkedIn). Ideally you've run operations in the Nordics. Full-time from day one.

Miami, FLcompilersrusttypescript
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Experience

  1. Engineering Manager
    May 2026 - Present
    LinkedIn · 5 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped 6 launches on the developer experience team without a rollback.
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 26 a week to 3.
  2. Senior Software Engineer
    Feb 2024 - May 2026
    Capital One · 2 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Reduced cloud spend on developer experience by 42% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2021 - Feb 2024
    Johnson & Johnson · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Moved 91% of developer experience traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  4. Software Engineer
    Jun 2017 - Mar 2021
    Bank of America · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 27 minutes to under 6.
  5. Software Engineer
    Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
    Walmart · 8 mo · Full-time · Miami, FL
    • Brought on-call pages for developer experience down from 36 a week to 3.
    • Wrote the VS Code extensions service that now handles 8 million requests a day.

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Education

  1. Kellogg School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2019 - 2021
  2. Princeton University
    AB, Mathematics
    2011 - 2015

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