Dent Earl
L7 Software Engineer Manager at Google
California, United States
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Top SchoolDent Earl is an L7 Software Engineering Manager at Google with 16 years of experience applying scientific rigor to large-scale geo data problems for Google Maps. Trained as a PhD bioinformatician, he brings a rare blend of comparative genomics, statistics, and data visualization to engineering leadership, having led cross-functional teams that delivered major basemap and political-hierarchy updates. Since transitioning to full-time engineering management in 2022, he focuses on balancing organizational priorities with individual growth to unblock hard technical and people problems. Known for loving puzzles and clean code, he has repeatedly driven high-impact data quality initiatives operating on billions of real-world entities. Based in California, he combines research-grade experimental thinking with production-scale system delivery.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, Bioinformatics, M.S, Bioinformatics at University of California, BerkeleyUniversity of California Santa CruzUniversity of California, Los Angeles
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Github Skills (37)
blast10
sequence-alignment10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
computational-biology10
maf10
cactus9
genome9
parser9
genomics-visualization9
parsing9
hilbert-curve9
fasta9
python-bindings9
curve8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dentearl/assemblAnalysis
Jan 2011 - Nov 2013
Contributions:286 commits in 2 years 9 months
dentearl/simpleHilbertCurve
Feb 2012 - Oct 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 2 years 8 months
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