Summary
Cam Juarez is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience at Google, known for leading the design and operation of large-scale distributed systems that serve billions daily. As a tech lead for Firebase Remote Config and owner of its distributed database, he restored stringent SLOs, cut on-call volume an order of magnitude, and drove platform improvements that earned multiple company-wide awards. He has deep hands-on expertise across Java, Scala, Go, Python, and C++, and a strong track record in cost optimization—most notably reducing fanout infrastructure costs by 60% while scaling messaging to hundreds of billions of daily deliveries. Beyond infrastructure, he has shipped high-performance APIs for YouTube and Search, introduced advanced experimentation and regression dashboards to improve model release velocity, and prototyped innovative features like image-by-text search for Google Spaces. Based in Portland, he combines pragmatic engineering with mentorship and a knack for turning complex, cross-functional dependencies into measurable product and operational wins.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Oregon
English, Spanish