Cole Rogers
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCole Rogers is a software engineer with a decade of experience building cloud-native back-end systems and generative AI products, currently working on Flow at Google Labs. He has deep practical experience with Firebase tooling and Cloud Functions—contributing access control, v2 HTTPS support, IAM policy work, and tests to widely used open-source repos like firebase-tools and firebase-functions. Prior roles at Chevron and Karl Storz reinforced his skills in production reliability and refactoring, while an early career as an ocean lifeguard hints at a calm, safety-first mindset under pressure. Based in New York and grounded in a CS education from UC Santa Barbara, he combines product-focused AI work with hands-on developer tooling improvements that benefit large developer ecosystems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at UC Santa BarbaraAssociate's degree Computer Science, Associate's degree Computer Science at Santa Barbara City College
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
google-cloud-platform10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
google-admin-sdk10
typescript10
google-cloud-functions10
firebase-cloud-functions10
gcp10
firebase-admin10
api10
google-cloud10
typescript-types10
serverless10
nodejs10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-functions
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Firebase SDK for Cloud Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:262 reviews, 140 commits, 104 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Cole primarily focused on enhancing the Firebase Functions SDK, specifically concerning access control and HTTPS functions. They implemented an 'invoker' option to manage access, including adding validation and error handling to secure endpoints. The user modified existing code and added new tests. They also updated the SDK to support v2 HTTPS functions.
firebase-sdkfirestorefirebase-functionsfirebasecloud-functions
firebase/firebase-tools
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
The Firebase Command Line Tools
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:389 reviews, 163 commits, 96 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Cole was primarily involved in implementing features related to purging and searching GCR images and setting access controls for HTTP Functions, which included updating and creating IAM policies. The user also contributed to refactoring and cleaning up code, fixing lint issues, and adding unit tests. Their work shows a focus on improving the Firebase command-line tools' functionalities and ensuring its reliability.
firebasecommand-line-toolscli
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