Alain Vongsouvanh
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlain Vongsouvanh is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with 15 years of experience building backend systems and developer-facing integrations, grounded in a strong academic background in Cognitive Science and AI from EPITA. He began his career working on medical image processing at Siemens (DARPA Deep Bleeder project) and has since progressed through developer programs and senior engineering roles at Google, blending systems-level C/C++ expertise with large-scale service design. Alain has practical Unix/Linux mastery and a history of improving developer tooling and APIs, evidenced by notable contributions to Google’s Mirror and gdata Python projects where he optimized API interactions and refactored client libraries for stability. Comfortable leading teams and reorganizing production processes from his startup era, he pairs hands-on technical depth with operational discipline. Based in Mountain View, he brings a mix of research-influenced problem solving and pragmatic engineering that surfaces in both legacy systems and modern cloud services.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
5, Computer Science, 5, Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en InformatiqueGustave Eiffel
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (42)
apim10
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
lib10
python10
apidoc10
architecture10
build-system10
code-library10
recover10
system-design10
recovery10
makefile10
system10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
googleglass/mirror-quickstart-python
Apr 2013 - Sep 2013
Google Mirror API's Quickstart for Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Alain primarily focused on backend development tasks related to the Google Mirror API. They updated the quickstart project, integrating the Discovery API for service interaction, and refactored the code to use batch requests for efficient timeline operations. The contributions also included removing unused imports and addressing session management and authorization issues, enhancing the application's stability and functionality. The user's work improved the quickstart's usability and API interaction efficiency.
googleapiapi-spython
google/gdata-python-client
Jan 2011 - Apr 2012
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alain primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the Google Data Python Client library. They addressed issues in the Contacts example, correcting errors in the sample code. The user also refactored code by changing "get_feed" calls to "get_entry" and added batch default URLs for contacts, alongside cleaning the sample code. Furthermore, they fixed typos and addressed issues in the calendar module.
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