Brian Madden
Software Engineer at Looker
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian 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.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa CruzBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
Github Skills (55)
kotlin10
kotlin-language10
web-crawler10
crawler10
kotlin-extensions10
kotlin-android10
java9
crawling9
code-generator9
csharp9
sdk9
api9
cli9
bind9
rule9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
brianmadden/rust-bloom-filter
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 1 month
implementationsbloommurmurhash3rustvector
brianmadden/krawler
Oct 2016 - May 2020
A web crawling framework written in Kotlin
Contributions:13 releases, 214 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 7 months
web-crawlercrawling-frameworkweb-crawlingkotlincrawling
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