Brandon Black
Technical Program Manager at Google
Los Gatos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Black is a Technical Program Manager with 13 years of experience applying software engineering discipline to large-scale operations and privacy programs at Google. He blends hands-on coding and data analysis (Python, pandas, SQL) with program leadership across site reliability, capacity planning, and privacy risk metrics, having owned launch-impact evaluations and resource-efficiency initiatives for core Google services. Prior roles at Cisco and Tesla honed his network automation and analytics chops, including building and teaching a network automation course across four continents and delivering Tableau-driven operational tooling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved high-profile projects like github-linguist and the official MongoDB Ruby driver by enhancing tests, grammars, and backend utilities—evidence of his attention to engineering quality beyond product teams. Based in Los Gatos, he combines a service-first mindset and curiosity—coffee and K9 enthusiast—with a master’s in Information Systems to translate complex technical requirements into pragmatic, people-centered programs.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Certificate Program, Project Management, Certificate Program, Project Management at De Anza CollegeSan José State UniversityEnterprise Networking, Enterprise Networking at Foothill CollegeMaster’s Degree, Information Systems, Master’s Degree, Information Systems at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (12)
testing10
ruby10
grammars10
mongodb-driver10
mongodb10
mongodb-database10
test-automation10
syntax-highlighting9
typescripts7
typescript-types7
typescript7
xml5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-ruby-driver
Oct 2012 - Mar 2014
The Official MongoDB Ruby Driver
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:211 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the test and configuration utilities for the MongoDB Ruby driver. Their commits focused on modifying the test configuration files, re-naming classes, and updating references to deprecated connection classes. The user also implemented features for writing the concerns and fixing threading and gridfs tests. These changes suggest a focus on improving the internal testing framework and ensuring the correct functionality of the driver.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubymongodb-drivermongodb
github-linguist/linguist
Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 17 commits, 96 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon's contributions primarily involve enhancements to the linguist repository, encompassing changes across multiple file types. They modified grammar files, updated test suites, and resolved merge conflicts. The user also refactored the language file and added a new sample.
linguisticlanguage-grammarslanguage-statisticspull-requestrequest
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