Brooks Moses
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrooks Moses is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at Google in Mountain View, combining deep systems and backend expertise with a Ph.D. from Stanford in mechanical engineering. He has a strong history in low-level tooling and numerical libraries from roles at CodeSourcery and Mentor Graphics, where he worked on GCC, Cell-processor math libraries, and signal-processing toolchains. Brooks contributes to prominent open-source projects such as rr-debugger/rr, focusing on stability, correctness, maintainability, and improving test infrastructure—work that speaks to his attention to reliability in complex record-and-replay systems. His background bridges rigorous academic modeling and practical engineering, having led student teams on energy-system modeling during graduate research. Colleagues describe him as someone who finds and fixes subtle correctness and build issues that others miss, improving long-term maintainability. Based in Silicon Valley, he combines deep technical chops in systems programming with a track record of shipping robust, production-grade tooling.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Mechanical Engineering, B.S., Mechanical Engineering at Virginia TechM.S., Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, M.S., Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (26)
debugging10
debug10
c-language10
testing10
linux10
gdb10
embedded10
reverse-engineering10
cprogramming-language10
system-programming9
memory-management9
operating-system9
arm9
linker9
automations8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rr-debugger/rr
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Record and Replay Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & System Engineer
Back-end Developer & System EngineerContributions:19 commits, 18 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Brooks primarily focused on improving the stability, correctness, and maintainability of the "rr-debugger/rr" project. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to CPU-unbound definitions, memory allocation, and file handling. They also addressed code quality issues by adding missing includes, refactoring code, and updating third-party libraries. Furthermore, the user enhanced the testing infrastructure and added a feature to provide more informative error messages.
replaylinuxperformancerecord-and-replaydebugger
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