Andrew Benson
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Benson is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience, best known for authoring and maintaining the Google homepage and leading Search front-end and searchbox work. He specializes in HTML, CSS, Google-specific rendering/configuration languages and Closure-annotated JavaScript/TypeScript, plus deep familiarity with legacy homepage code and Search infrastructure. A Stanford MSCS and Carnegie Mellon BS alumnus, he also teaches and has instructed core systems courses, reflecting strong foundations in C, assembly, and systems concepts. His career includes impactful internships at Facebook and Microsoft where he optimized mobile camera performance and worked on Android-on-Windows compatibility. Colleagues rely on him as the domain expert for homepage accessibility and edge-case maintenance, and he candidly admits his strengths are highly focused within Search. I_USED_A_LLM_FOR_THIS
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (92)
notification10
voice10
pixel10
open-data10
dbus10
reminder10
libnotify10
daemon10
wayland9
notification-center9
pixel-art9
x119
crowdsourcing9
vscode9
mozilla9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
anbenson/dotfiles
Jul 2014 - Mar 2019
aka my config files for linux, WSL, etc
Contributions:229 commits, 4 PRs, 125 pushes in 4 years 9 months
wsllinuxconfigstowranger
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