Brian Madden is a systems-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience building storage, kernel, and distributed systems across startups and large companies, currently at Google after senior roles at Looker. He brings deep C++ and embedded-kernel expertise—especially in tiering, garbage collection, and performance debugging—paired with practical Python automation and test infrastructure experience. Brian’s academic research on storage-indexing and cloud compute-vs-storage tradeoffs informs a holistic approach to design that avoids narrowly optimized solutions. Comfortable across the stack from OS internals to cloud services, he also has a history of founding and contributing to OS projects and high-performance file systems, showing a sustained interest in low-level engineering and security.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Contributions:13 releases, 214 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 7 months
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