Chris Barrick
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Barrick is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native AI infrastructure and SRE tooling, currently focused on capacity management for GPUs and TPUs in Google Cloud's Vertex AI. He blends hands-on ops and on-call experience across Conversational AI products with a deep interest in programming languages—seen in practical work with Rust and Prolog and semantic front-end improvements to the popular Jekyll poole theme. Comfortable across systems from ML model deployment, canary rollouts and versioning to Kubernetes-scale services, he also designs data pipelines and REST/CLI APIs from his research on solar irradiance prediction. Based in Pittsburgh, he mentors interns frequently and brings an unusual combination of AI research grounding and production reliability engineering to large-scale ML platforms.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of GeorgiaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Rabun Gap Nacoochee School
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Github Skills (12)
html10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
try-catch9
css6
language-agnostic6
javascript6
python6
loops6
numpy6
matplotlib6
radix6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
poole/poole
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
The Jekyll Butler. A no frills responsive Jekyll blog theme.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 days
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on improving the semantic HTML structure and visual presentation of the Jekyll blog theme. They updated various layout files to incorporate HTML5 semantic elements such as `<article>`, `<aside>`, `<header>`, `<main>`, and `<footer>`. Furthermore, the user standardized the use of `<time>` elements for dates and implemented the use of `<small>` for copyright information, reflecting attention to semantic correctness. These updates demonstrate a focus on enhancing the overall structure and accessibility of the theme.
butlerjekyll-blog-themejekyll-blogjekylljekyll-theme
cbarrick/dotfiles
Oct 2013 - Nov 2022
Contributions:420 commits, 220 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 2 months
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