Harrison Smith

Character sheet

Harrison Smith

Software Engineer · Full-Stack · Cloud

Class
Software Engineer
Guild
Winthrop Capital Management
Hometown
Indianapolis, IN

Summary

I'm a software engineer at Winthrop Capital Management, where I'm modernizing financial workflows. Most recently I architected Web WOMBAT, a cloud-native Angular, ASP.NET, and Azure application replacing a decade-old WinForms system used by investment analysts and operations. I'm a Purdue Computer Engineering grad with a passion for clean architecture, developer tooling, and performance decisions grounded in data.

Experience

  1. Software Engineer · Winthrop Capital Management, Carmel, IN

    June 2025 – Present

    • Architected Web WOMBAT, a cloud-native Angular/ASP.NET application replacing a legacy WinForms system for investment analysts and operations.
    • Achieved loading times up to 100× faster via database normalization, indexing, query optimization, and lightweight EF projections.
    • Deployed on Azure (Virtual Networks, App Services, SQL Server, App Gateway, Redis) configured via Bicep scripts; automated CI/CD with Azure Pipelines and Docker.

  2. Software Engineering Intern · Winthrop Capital Management, Carmel, IN

    May – August 2024

    • Refactored 100+ financial calculations into a centralized library, improving maintainability and calculation consistency.
    • Produced 30 UML diagrams to visualize dataflow between UI and SQL database.
    • Built an automated financial report to streamline government treasury bond data collection.

  3. Research Associate · ECELabs.io, West Lafayette, IN

    January – May 2024

    • Built hardware and software analytics dashboards providing real-time server stats and Google Analytics insights.
    • Identified and resolved an I/O bottleneck through performance profiling, improving system throughput under load.