Harrison's Personal Website

Intro

Hi, my name is Harrison Duval. I was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. My mom is a Peruvian immigrant, and latinx culture was a big part of my upbringing. I am a senior at Vanderbilt University, majoring in computer science. I am an aspiring software engineer with experience developing full-stack applications. I have the most experience programming in Java, JavaScript (React), and C++.

Work Experience

My work experience has come from my two summer internships as a software developer at Amazon. During my time as an intern, I received the opportunity to tackle two customer impacting projects. My first project was mostly backend work, where I used AWS Step Functions, Lambda, Glue, SNS, SQS, S3, and DynamoDB to offer customers the ability to remove ASIN and Brand ID mappings from items in the Amazon catalog. During my second internship, I had the opportunity to develop a full stack application that allows users to search various databases for historical data on all ASIN and Brand ID mappings submitted to the Amazon catalog. I accomplished this by setting up multiple REST API endpoints for each search type. I implemented the server side as a Spring Boot application that queries the databases when the relevant endpoints are hit. I built the frontend using React routing, components, and hooks. Throughout both of these internships I improved my technical skills, and my understanding of cloud computing. Furthermore, I grew a lot as a person and professionally by learning how to deal with ambiguous situations and developed more patience.

Hobbies

Soccer has been one of my strongest passions since childhood. I grew up playing recreational soccer with my friends and joined my middle school soccer team with them. In high school, I began to take it more seriously and decided to hone my skills by joining the local club team. My goal was to make my school's highly competitive varsity team. By the end of my sophomore year, I had achieved this goal and joined the team. This taught me the important life lesson of working hard to achieve my goals. In my senior year, we won the state championship, and it was a very proud moment for me. My other hobbies include watching soccer, and my favorite club is Tottenham Hotspur. While growing up, I also enjoyed playing video games with my friends, as it was a fun way to socialize with them outside of school. As I've grown older, I have struggled to find the time to play these games, but I still occasionally play Football Manager, FIFA, CS:GO, Overwatch, and League of Legends.