Andrew Savage
Senior Software Engineer At YouTube at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAndrew Savage is a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube with six years of experience building lightweight, high-performance browser-like platforms for Smart TVs and living room devices. He leads teams of 4–8 engineers on Cobalt, the runtime that keeps TVs running YouTube, combining systems-level C++/embedded expertise with product-focused delivery. Prior roles include core engineering at Google and a quantitative internship where he optimized regex scanning by 96% and built long-lived libraries for production use—evidence of his knack for pragmatic performance engineering. Based in New York, he pairs a Tufts background in Mathematics and Computer Science with hands-on leadership and a history of coaching and teaching that informs his collaborative, mentorship-driven approach.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
N/A N/A, N/A N/A at King Low Heywood Thomas SchoolBachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Mathematics and Computer Science at Tufts University
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Github Skills (25)
sandbox10
blame10
pair-programming10
youtube10
cobalt10
explore10
cpp10
annotations9
glance9
git-blame9
vscode-extension9
branches9
unlock9
release-management9
vscode9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
andrewsavage1/cobalt
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5 application container
Contributions:1 PR, 537 pushes, 298 branches in 1 year 11 months
andrewsavage1/cobalt_sandbox
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
Cobalt dev workflow sandbox - this repo exists only as a prototype and will get rewritten. Please see http://cobalt.dev
Contributions:78 PRs, 104 pushes, 49 branches in 7 months
rewrittendevdev-workflowsandboxprototype
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