Chris Nokleberg
Principal Software Engineer
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolChris Nokleberg is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience leading large-scale server and product infrastructure teams at Google, most recently as Server Platform Tech Lead. He helped shape core Google Docs and Google+ infrastructure projects and earlier reverse-engineered the PPT format as Chief Engineer at Tonic Systems, work that led to acquisition by Google. A pragmatic systems engineer, he contributes to notable open-source Java libraries such as google/guava, where he improved ByteSource/CharSource features and added robust ByteBuffer and sizing support. Based in Menlo Park, he balances deep backend expertise with hands-on coding, unit testing, and API design, and is currently focused on family and personal projects while staying active in the community.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Computer Science, B.A. Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
java10
guava10
unit-testing9
regex8
apidoc7
api7
collections6
optimization6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/guava
May 2015 - Jun 2020
Google core libraries for Java
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the Google Guava core libraries for Java, focusing on enhancing the `ByteSource` and `CharSource` classes. Their work involved adding support for new functionalities like ByteBuffer, new methods like `sizeIfKnown()` and `lengthIfKnown()`, and improving existing functionalities like skipping fully. This included modifying existing Java classes and creating unit tests to ensure functionality and stability. Additionally, they added a service provider for the regex library used by `common.base`.
guavajavacore-libraries
herbyderby/grpc-java
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
rpcgrpc-javaprotobufgrpcnetty
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