Bob Hogg
Software Engineer at Google
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBob Hogg is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building web applications, security-conscious backend services, and production-grade tooling across companies from SugarCRM to Okta and now Google. He has strong Java/Spring and microservices experience, plus hands-on SRE, Terraform and test-suite redesign work from his time modernizing BlueCat’s networking platform. A long-time open-source contributor and former maintainer on Homebrew for Linux, he brings practical cross-platform packaging and build expertise that complements his cloud and DevOps skills. Based in Old Toronto, he prefers hybrid roles over full remote and is not interested in contract or advertising work, reflecting a pragmatic approach to team collaboration and domain fit.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English
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Github Skills (28)
dependency-management10
package-management10
scripting10
testing10
linux10
build-system10
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
script10
sh10
macos10
package-manager10
shell10
git9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Linuxbrew/brew
Mar 2016 - Oct 2017
:beer::penguin: The Homebrew package manager for Linux
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:76 commits, 83 PRs, 42 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Bob primarily contributed to the Linuxbrew/brew package manager, with commits focused on fixing bugs, and improving the build process. They implemented checks for bottles, fixed issues related to fetching x86_64_linux bottles. Further, they made changes to requirements and tests. The user also addressed issues related to the default compiler and merging upstream changes.
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Linuxbrew/legacy-linuxbrew
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
:skull: This repository is defunct, because it has been split into https://github.com/Linuxbrew/brew and https://github.com/Linuxbrew/homebrew-core
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 57 PRs, 15 pushes in 18 days
Contributions summary:Bob primarily focused on making Linuxbrew compatible with various software packages, addressing platform-specific issues. The contributions involved modifying build scripts, dependency declarations, and configuration files for projects like Chromedriver, QWT, Chicken, SBCL, OPAM, Infer, PCRE, ZSH, Xerces-c, D-Bus, Jsvc, Blahtexml, CVS, RE2 and PostgreSQL. The user's commits often involved adapting the build process to work correctly on Linux-based systems, ensuring proper dependencies and configurations.
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