Kiara Ashanti Harris

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Senior Backend Engineer at Heron Security · Payments infrastructure

Heron Security
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
8+ years experience
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Mandarin
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Overview

Currently at Heron Security, where I work on payments infrastructure. Wrote the idempotency service that now handles 11 million requests a day. Brought on-call pages for payments platform down from 19 a week to 4. Most at home with Go and idempotency.

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gRPCGoPostgreSQLidempotencyPCI DSS

Experience

  1. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Heron Security · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Designed the reconciliation system that matches 8 million transactions a day.
    • Wrote the PostgreSQL service that now handles 22 million requests a day.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 19 minutes to under 5.
  2. Backend Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Jul 2022
    Block · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 44% in two quarters.
    • Moved 65% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Backend Engineer
    Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
    Qualcomm · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 35% in two quarters.
    • Took payment success rates from 94.1% to 97.3%.

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Education

  1. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    BS, Electronics and Communication
    2014 - 2018

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