Alex Sherman
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolAlex Sherman is a Senior Software Engineer in Madison, WI with 11 years of experience building high-performance networking and game systems across C, C#, Python and modern web stacks. At Google he focuses on making datacenter and ML networking fast and reliable, drawing on earlier work that combined multiple physical interfaces into a single high-throughput virtual link. He’s also an indie game founder who has iterated on a custom C# engine for eight years, blending systems-level performance thinking with product-focused game development. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he implemented a performant concurrency decorator and synchronization primitives in Python that improved usability and compatibility. Alex pairs deep low-level expertise with an entrepreneurial bent, shipping practical, well-benchmarked solutions across both infrastructure and consumer-facing projects.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Github Skills (17)
python10
python-multiprocessing10
decorator10
decorators10
multi-process10
multiprocessing10
decoration10
concurrency10
abstract-syntax-tree9
multithreading9
hyper-threading9
thread9
threaded9
socket6
mongodb6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alex-sherman/deco
Apr 2016 - Nov 2021
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 12 PRs, 59 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on developing a concurrency decorator in Python. Their contributions include the initial implementation of the decorator, incorporating global variables, allowing parameters to be passed, and improving performance with a pool implementation. Further work included support for a `synchronized` decorator to manage access to shared resources and adding features such as deferred function calls and list comprehension support. The user also addressed several bugs and compatibility issues.
alex-sherman/alex-sherman.github.io
Apr 2015 - Jun 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 47 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 3 months
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