Harrison Liddiard
Product manager, design & aviation enthusiast
Hi! I’m Harrison, a technical product manager at PayPal and UCLA graduate. Check out my projects below and my resumé for some things I’ve done. You can also find me on LinkedIn and GitHub.
Skills & Interests
Here’s some stuff I enjoy learning about and doing, to varying levels of competency. Software-specific skills are in purple:
- event planning
- web development
- GraphQL
- Node.js
- aviation
- JavaScript
- React
- Python
- hardware projects
- copywriting
- theater tech
- audio mixing
- video editing
- cinematography
- 3D animation
- music
- scuba diving
- UI design
- user research
- ballroom dance
Industries
I’m particularly interested in these areas of work:
- transportation
- logistics
- education
- finance
- healthcare
- journalism
Projects
Some things I’ve made (most recent first):Software
- Weather & subway board: Get essential info from an LED fridge magnet before heading out the door
- Stream Editor: Interactively use command-line text manipulation utilities
- Slack Meetups: Bot that pairs people for one-on-one chats
- Aviation Weather Map: Visualize flight conditions with hardware & software
- Driving Time Heatmap: See transportation times to surrounding areas in different traffic conditions
- New York Times internship: Search optimization and typographic headline balancing
- Mail a PDF Online: Mail a document to anywhere in the U.S. under 60 seconds
- kikl.co: The link shortener for easy to type and remember URLs
- UCLA Bruins Signing Day: Live updates for the Bruins’ Football Signing Day
- UCLA Bruins championships showcase: Explore the Bruins’ history of wins
- The Stack: Data journalism and newsroom tech blog
- TypeEmoji: The no-nonsense emoji search keyboard
- monitor404: Simple 404 error monitoring for your website
- Sepalnote: Hierarchical note-taking for the web (incomplete)
- istelemarketer: Should you pick up the phone?
- GIFdatabase: Crowdsourced animated GIF search
- prime: Quarterly lifestyle magazine
Video
- Blueshifted: Director of photography and special effects for a short film
- Wedding videography: Filming and editing video for a photo shoot and reception