Cyrus Boadway
Software Engineer at Google
London, England, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolCyrus Boadway is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building product-focused systems, currently working on Google Keep after prior roles across Google’s Digital Wellbeing and Social Good teams. He combines backend and database expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the popular Phinx migrations library, where he added JSON config support and refactored core loading logic—with hands-on product and team leadership from his time as CTO and co-founder of an ed‑tech startup. Comfortable in both research and production contexts, Cyrus has a strong academic foundation in engineering, physics, and computing from Queen’s University and early experience teaching and researching database and distributed systems topics. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to bridge developer ergonomics, data concerns, and thoughtful product design.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering, Physics, Engineering, Physics at Queen's University
English, French
Github Skills (9)
database-migrations10
json10
configuration-management10
php10
database-migration10
db-migrate10
db-migration10
migration10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cakephp/phinx
Feb 2014 - May 2014
PHP Database Migrations for Everyone
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:26 commits, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Cyrus's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the configuration capabilities of the Phinx library, particularly by adding support for JSON configuration files. They implemented the `fromJSON` method within the `Config` class and integrated JSON parsing into the configuration loading process. Furthermore, the user fixed a typo in an exception message related to invalid JSON files and also refactored code for improved readability and maintainability. This work involved modifying core configuration loading and parsing logic and directly impacted database migration configuration.
mysqlphp-database-migrationsphpphp71mysqli
cyrusboadway/PervasiveContextSharingHost
Aug 2012 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 3 years 4 months
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