Summary
Connor Garvey is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with 20+ years in software engineering and 15 years of focused industry experience delivering production-grade systems across automotive, consumer, and cloud platforms. He has led teams and built tooling that automated and accelerated release pipelines at Google and Yahoo, improved privacy and data export compliance for large-scale services, and now applies that expertise to manufacturing and quality engineering at Rivian and Volkswagen Group Technologies. Connor blends deep backend and distributed systems skills with a strong track record of reducing manual processes—once cutting merge time by over 200%—and has repeatedly driven measurable reliability and performance improvements. He’s comfortable leading small teams to solve complex operational problems, audits legacy systems to remove unnecessary user data, and has a pragmatic engineering style shaped by roles at Apple, Nokia, and enterprise travel and retail platforms.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at DePaul University School of Computer Science and Technology