I'm Harry,
I build tools, teams, and occasionally climb stuff.
I've been contributing to open source for two years now, with commits across the ecosystem and encounters with developers all over the globe.
Most of that time has been spent with TanStack. On 07/03/25, after a few months of implementing features, fixing bugs and documenting APIs, Corbin Crutchley messaged me to check my email. There, with an almost holy glow, was the subject line: @crutchcorn has invited you to join the @TanStack organization. Since then, it's given me opportunities I'm fortunate to have and friendships I'll be forever thankful for.
On its face, open source is a strange thing: people giving up their free time so faceless mega corporations™ can profit from their labour. But there's something to it, something about programming in the dead of night on features a developer somewhere in the world will use. You'll probably never meet them, but for a moment, you're building something together.
Work
Experience
AllMyHomes
01/05/22 - 17/07/22
I think about AllMyHomes more than you'd expect for a three-month role. I was fresh out of a bootcamp and asked to migrate the micro-frontends I was responsible for into a monolith repository. When my senior, Łukasz, said to "just copy over the APIs," I did, I copied thirteen thousand lines verbatim. When he said he'd speak to my skip-level manager after taking one look at the PR, I was certain I was finished. What happened instead was training and a second chance. I'm not the greatest developer in the world, but I'm a competent one now, and I owe much of that to Łukasz.
Unfortunately my time at AllMyHomes was cut short, as the summer of 22 drew to a close, and governments around the world were increasing interest rates to fight inflation, the funding was cut. Three rounds of layoffs later the company no longer exists.
Technoly
01/09/22 - PRESENT
Technoly is where I really progressed as a developer. I was given the freedom to make mistakes and had very little oversight for the majority of my time here. Decisions I made years ago as a junior developer frequently show up again in tasks I have today. I feel that oftentimes we learn the most as developers when we are confronted with decisions we made in the past, a lesson that many developers are robbed of if their time at a company is on the shorter side.
I have learnt a lot here: I have become confident in my developer skills, deepened my understanding of advanced TypeScript, and even became a maintainer of TanStack... an organisation I once revered as a junior developer, and still do.
TO BE CONTINUED...
PRESENT - FUTURE
My story is still developing, lets see where I go next.