Daniel Noé
Software Engineer at Google
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolDaniel Noé is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years of experience building high-performance, low-latency systems across startups and major technology companies, currently at Google. He has deep expertise in storage and networking—driving kernel- and user-space performance improvements at VeloBit/HGST, architecting a high-throughput transport (SpeedyTCP), and optimizing real-time market data and analytics stacks. Daniel contributes to notable open-source projects like Envoy, where he improved test coverage and added resilience tooling such as a deadlock detector, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliability and observability. Comfortable leading small teams and wearing many hats in early-stage environments, he combines systems-level rigor with product-minded delivery. Based in Pittsburgh, he brings a rare personal passion for aviation and meteorology—he’s an instrument-rated private pilot who owns and flies a 1977 Cessna Cardinal RG—which informs a strong interest in safety-critical software.
26 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
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Github Skills (12)
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testing10
concurrency9
debugging8
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Mar 2017 - Dec 2019
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:52 commits, 97 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to improving test coverage and implementing testing infrastructure within the Envoy proxy project. Their work included writing unit tests for server-side components, specifically focusing on the `InstanceImpl` class and its error handling. Furthermore, they introduced a deadlock detector called "GuardDog" to enhance the system's resilience by detecting non-responsive threads. This involved creating new test cases and mocking components to thoroughly validate the functionality.
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dnoe/envoy
Mar 2017 - Feb 2023
C++ front/service proxy
Contributions:98 pushes, 60 branches, 1 comment in 5 years 11 months
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