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I'm Harrison Hogg, a Software Engineer from Brighton, UK.
I love designing and building things, which frequently sends me down rabbit holes on side projects. I studied at The Open University where I received my BSc Computing and Design Honours degree.
Personal Projects
Circle Graph
An application, for describing and visualising an algorithm that calculates circle intersections with graphs.
Circle Art
A web application for creating artwork by filling in the intersection areas of overlapping circles. Using an experimental way of calculating intersections areas with graphs.
Antwerp
A web application for visualising the GomJau-Hogg notation for generating any regular polygon tessellations.
Preshape
A minimal design system and library of React components, that fit together just like LEGO. This exists mainly to facilitate my own personal projects.
Snake
A project that was originally created as a game for developers to compete on writing a heuristic function to complete the game of snake in the most efficient way possible.
Spirals
An experiment for rendering and animating a variety of spirals and radial patterns using WebGL.
Experience
Now
2021
Spotify
Senior Engineer
typescript
nodejs
java
react
gcp
2018
Bitrise & Outlyer (Acquisition)
Tech Lead
Bitrise is a continuous integration and delivery platform built for mobile. My time at Bitrise was focused on building and tech leading the Trace product which is a mobile application performance monitoring tool, that collects metrics, traces and crashes from user mobile devices and aggregates this data to help developers analyse and identify problems in their apps.
typescript
css
react
gcp
2015
Brandwatch
Senior Developer
Brandwatch is a social media monitoring platform. They provide tools to monitor, analyse and engage with conversations across the internet. My time at Brandwatch was spent building the frontend to the Audiences (Twitter advertising) product, leading the development of Axiom (the company's Pattern Library and Design System) and helping out with various other development projects.
javascript
nodejs
css
react
redux
gcp
2015
Reedsy
Senior Developer
Reedsy is a curated marketplace for self publishing authors. They provide a platform to handle connections, communication and payments between authors and professionals, and a suite of tools to write and publish books. My time at Reedsy was spent building the marketplace to connect book publishing professionals, the real-time collaborative book editing application (using Operational Transformation), and the Pattern Library to implement the design system across these two application.
javascript
nodejs
ruby
angular
sass
aws
2014
Pure360
UI Developer
Pure360 is an Email Service Provider (ESP) offering a Software-as-a-service platform that allows businesses to manage their subscribers, create emails and track campaigns. My time at Pure360 as a UI Developer was primarily focused on building the UI to their Drag and Drop email creation tool and helped build the platform for campaign management and analytics.
javascript
nodejs
scala
angular
less
Writings
Finding circle intersections with graphs
An explanation in using graphs to find intersections of geometry by conditionally and dynamically creating connections that follow a set of rules.
19 Aug 2021
Finding the optimal solution for solving the classic game of Snake with pathfinding and heuristics
An exploration into finding the most optimal programmatic solution for completing the classic game of snake.
13 Apr 2020
Publications
GomJau-Hogg’s Notation for Automatic Generation of k-Uniform Tessellations with ANTWERP v3.0
MDPI Symmetry
Euclidean tilings are constantly applied to many fields of engineering (mechanical, civil, chemical, etc.). These tessellations are usually named after Cundy & Rollett’s notation. However, this notation has two main problems related to ambiguous conformation and uniqueness. This communication explains the GomJau-Hogg’s notation for generating all the regular, semi-regular (uniform) and demi-regular (k-uniform, up to at least k = 3) in a consistent, unique and unequivocal manner. Moreover, it presents Antwerp v3.0, a free online application, which is publicly shared to prove that all the basic tilings can be obtained directly from the GomJau-Hogg’s notation.
by Valentin Gomez-Jauregui [1], Harrison Hogg [2], Cristina Manchado [3], Cesar Otero [4]
09 Dec 2021