Chris Broadfoot
Resting at Self-employed
United States
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Top SchoolChris Broadfoot is a Staff Engineer with 15 years of experience building developer-facing platforms, SDKs, and tools, currently focusing on YAML reliability. He spent over a decade at Google shaping DevRel/DevEx for Go, Google Cloud, and Maps APIs, and contributed directly to high-profile open-source projects like the Go language, google-cloud-go client libraries, and the Go Playground. Equally comfortable in backend, front-end, and DevOps work, he has improved build/release automation, client libraries, demos, and test infrastructure across multiple languages and runtimes. Chris combines hands-on engineering with developer experience strategy, having designed support and outreach for APIs, SDKs, and IDE-related tooling. Outside of work he “codes for fun,” tinkers with big-data and agent projects, and maintains a long track record of practical open-source improvements that prioritize maintainability and usability.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
North Sydney Boys High SchoolUNSW Sydney
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Github Skills (74)
apim10
programming-language10
google-cloud-platform10
expressjs10
python10
testing10
http10
javas10
code-generation10
google-cloud10
google-map10
sample-data10
build-automation10
google-maps10
appengine10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
googlemaps/android-maps-utils
May 2013 - Sep 2015
Maps SDK for Android Utility Library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:267 commits, 22 PRs, 15 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Chris contributed to the `android-maps-utils` repository by creating the `SphericalUtilTest.java`, and `PolyUtilTest.java` files and updating them. The user worked on the `BubbleIconDemoActivity` which generates icons that contain text (or custom content) within a bubble. The user appears to be implementing utility functions and test cases, as well as demos to visualize their functionality.
android-utilityandroidsdkmarker-clusteringmap
GoogleCloudPlatform/golang-samples
Sep 2015 - Jul 2020
Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 237 commits, 522 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Chris's commits primarily focus on implementing and extending the "Getting Started" application within the repository, a Go-based application designed for the Google Cloud Platform. The user added several new applications, including "bookshelf" and "hello world", which involved writing backend code using Go and the Gorilla/Mux routing library to handle HTTP requests and responses. The commits also modified database interactions, indicating work with data storage, likely Cloud Datastore or Cloud SQL, essential for building the core application logic. These changes demonstrate the user's ability to build full-featured web applications for GCP.
golangappenginesample-appsgoogle-cloudgoogle-appengine
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