Desmond Rawls
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Santa Monica, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDesmond Rawls is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of cross-disciplinary experience, currently leading video editing, ML signals, and Gemini integration efforts on Google Photos. He blends back-end and DevOps expertise—evidenced by contributions to the notable cloudfoundry/bosh-bootloader project adding Azure/AWS support and improving deployment reliability—with a background in data science and engineering management. His career path ranges from hands-on shop supervision and offshore pump operations to building production systems at Pivotal and INRIX, giving him a pragmatic, problem-solving approach to complex technical challenges. Based in Santa Monica, he pairs deep engineering skill with a knack for operational resilience and iterative product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
incomplete Mathematics, incomplete Mathematics at Georgetown UniversityThe Flatiron School
English, Spanish, German
Github Skills (12)
bosh10
bootloader10
terraformer10
terraform10
devops9
gcp9
aws9
microsoft-azure9
azure9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-services9
go8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh-bootloader
Oct 2017 - Mar 2018
Command line utility for standing up a BOSH director on an IAAS of your choice.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 91 commits, 41 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Desmond's contributions focused on enhancing the `bosh-bootloader` project by addressing various aspects of its functionality and infrastructure. Their work included refactoring cloud configuration management, incorporating support for Azure and AWS, and streamlining tests for improved reliability. Furthermore, they contributed to improving the deployment process and general maintenance and optimization of the code base.
gcpboshcloud-foundryterragruntcommand-line-utility
desmondrawls/ouch
Jul 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:166 pushes, 2 branches, 10 tags in 8 months
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