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Andrew Harris
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Andrew Harris

Data Acquisition & Engineering Leader · Vancouver, WA

Architect of billion-scale crawlers, agentic extraction pipelines, and AI-powered data intelligence systems. A decade scaling data acquisition from startup to IPO, now directing dark-web and threat-intelligence collection at Recorded Future.

10+ years in data acquisition Director-level Startup → IPO

Professional Summary

Senior data acquisition leader currently directing dark-web and threat-intelligence collection at Recorded Future. Decade of prior leadership at ZoomInfo, scaling web acquisition from startup to public-market leader. Architect of billion-scale crawlers, agentic extraction pipelines, and vectorized data platforms powering commercial and threat intelligence. Expert in distributed systems, real-time data ingestion, cloud-native orchestration, and high-precision LLM/SLM-based extraction. Proven builder of high-performance teams across engineering, data science, and intelligence. Delivers scalable, fault-tolerant data platforms that drive product innovation and enterprise revenue.

Professional Experience

Senior Manager, Dark Web Data Collection
Recorded Future · Feb 2026 - Present
Remote · Vancouver, WA
Senior Manager, Agentic Web Data Acquisition
ZoomInfo · Mar 2023 - Feb 2026
Vancouver, WA
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
ZoomInfo · Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
Vancouver, WA
Manager of Data Strategy
ZoomInfo · Oct 2019 - Mar 2021
Vancouver, WA
Operations Analyst / Special Projects Analyst
DiscoverOrg · Jul 2016 - Oct 2019
Vancouver, WA

Side Projects

Google Search and Maps SERP scraper with Flask web UI, PostgreSQL storage, and batch CSV processing

Agentic RAG platform for navigating the legal system - crawls, indexes, and enables semantic search across legal documents

Universal web scraper with a 3-tier hybrid fallback strategy - stealth browser automation, residential proxy rotation, and request fingerprinting

Yelp business data extraction with deep pagination, Flask UI, PostgreSQL storage with deduplication, and real-time progress tracking

Fishing spot discovery platform for anglers. React/TypeScript frontend, Express backend, PostGIS for geospatial queries

Technical Skills

Data Infrastructure
Postgres pgvector AWS S3 EC2 Lambda Kinesis Redis Docker GitHub Actions Airflow Kafka Spark Beam Snowflake BigQuery GCS Varnish
Languages & Frameworks
Python SQL FastAPI Flask Scrapy Playwright Selenium BeautifulSoup Node.js Neo4J Spanner NLTK spaCy Go PyArrow LlamaIndex RAG
Search & Crawling
SERP Orchestration Proxy Management Rate Limiting Diff-based Crawling Apache Nutch Frontera Crawl4AI Colly Guzzle Headless Fingerprinting CAPTCHA Resolution
Machine Intelligence
OpenAI Anthropic LLMs Custom SLMs Embeddings Entity Resolution Enrichment Models LangChain LangGraph HuggingFace Vertex AI Groq
Leadership & Strategy
Hiring & Scaling Technical Mentorship OKR Design CI/CD Cross-functional Leadership Vendor Integration Data Lineage GDPR CCPA

Education

Master of Public Affairs (M.P.A.), Applied Policy
Washington State University
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), History & Development of Language
Winthrop University
Sigma Tau Delta - Chapter President

Notable Achievements

Transformed ZoomInfo's acquisition codebase into a billion-page, enterprise-grade web intelligence platform driving core product data.
Advanced from analyst to director scope assuming ownership of the company's mission-critical acquisition infrastructure and strategy.
One of the first 150 employees instrumental in growing engineering and data infrastructure through 3,500+ headcount and an explosive IPO.