About

Harris Jose is a results-driven software engineer with over 5 years of experience in front-end development. He is currently working as a Software Engineer at Chronicle, where he is helping build the future of storytelling. Prior to this, he was a part of the platform team at Facilio and the Payments and Banking team at Zoho. At Facilio, Harris was a core developer in the platform team, where he focused on front-end architecture. He collaborated on several platform features like Custom Modules, Stateflows, and SLA. Harris built a flow chart builder using Canvas & Fabric.js and implemented the A-Star search algorithm for automatically finding non-conflicting paths. He also added support for building custom, user-defined apps on the Facilio Platform and optimized the webpack build resulting in 30% smaller JavaScript bundles and around 40% faster dev-builds. Harris leads technical documentation efforts to reduce knowledge silos and mentors new engineers on the frontend team. At Zoho, Harris was a Member Of Technical Staff - Payments & Banking, where he worked on payment gateway and bank integrations for the Finance Suite of products. He collaborated on several key integrations including Razorpay, Paytm, and Apple Pay. Harris helped release the connected-banking features in Zoho Books and championed and led the revamp of payment pages into a modern React-based codebase. He configured code-splitting and lazy loading to improve page load times. Harris holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Science from Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Frontend Development, Javascript, Normalization, VueJS, and Search. Harris shares his work and learnings on his blog and website. With 6.36 years of relevant experience, Harris is a valuable asset to any team.