Barry Mcnamara
Senior Software Engineer at Asana
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolBarry Mcnamara is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building performant, scalable systems and developer-facing tooling. Currently driving core performance at Asana, he previously led framework and compiler work at YouTube—designing a live debugging environment that boosted debugging scores by 68% and building a multi-language version-skew system adopted across Google. He combines low-level C++ and build-system expertise (Starlark/Bazel) with TypeScript front-end work and a test-driven approach to compilers and client-side GraphQL. Known for reducing memory and crash rates through pragmatic optimizations, he also focuses on developer productivity by designing frameworks, build rules, and infrastructure that make teams more effective. A former MIT researcher and instructor, he brings an academic rigor to production engineering and a track record of mentoring engineers through promotions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6-P), Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Course 6-P) at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Fred C. Beyer High School
Github Skills (70)
rxcpp10
pinch-zoom10
protocol-buffers9
javascript9
pinch9
client-library9
gestures9
reactive-extensions9
protobuf9
cpp9
reactivex9
algorithms9
https-server9
serialization9
rpc9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
barryam3/s2
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Version 2 of the Cross Products set selection web app.
Contributions:4 PRs, 83 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
reactselection
barryam3/trivia
May 2017 - Sep 2024
Contributions:23 PRs, 77 pushes, 19 branches in 7 years 5 months
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