Xavier Moore

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Founder & CEO at Harbor Works · Rust, product

Harbor Works
New York, NY · ET (UTC-5)
13+ years experience
Cornell University
English
Hiring
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Overview

Founder of Harbor Works (developer tooling). 24 years of building before that. Took Harbor Works from zero to $10 million ARR. Before that: Nike and VMware. Marathoner (11 so far).

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Skills
Rustdeveloper toolsproductcommunityopen source
HiringHiring for a role
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Hiring our first product designer at Harbor Works - New York

Role
Product designer
Level
Senior
Type
Full-time
Work mode
Remote within country
Compensation
$147k-$178k + equity
Team
Founding team, 3 people
Start
This quarter
Must have
A portfolio of shipped product work Comfort working directly with engineers Comfort with ambiguity
Process
Two interviews and a paid trial day

Comp $178k-$263k. One technical chat and a paid trial day. Message me with one thing you shipped that you're proud of.

New York, NYcommunityproductrust
Open

Experience

  1. Founder & CEO
    Jul 2022 - Present
    Harbor Works · 4 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Raised $20 million across 2 rounds.
    • Signed 129 paying customers, 6 of them enterprises.
  2. FP&A Manager
    Apr 2019 - Jul 2022
    Nike · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Ran diligence on 5 acquisitions.
    • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 18.
  3. Financial Analyst
    Oct 2017 - Apr 2019
    VMware · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Saved $9 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
  4. Financial Analyst
    Jan 2016 - Oct 2017
    Zoom · 1 yr 9 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $275 million raise.
  5. FP&A Manager
    Dec 2013 - Jan 2016
    Wayfair · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · New York, NY
    • Saved $5 million a year renegotiating vendor contracts.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 3% for 7 straight quarters.

Projects

Developer tooling benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing open source and Rust on real workloads.

Write-up: developer tooling in practice
2024

A long-form guide to developer tooling for people starting out.

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Education

  1. Cornell University
    BS, Business Administration
    1998 - 2002

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