Elliott Sprehn
Principal Engineer at Google
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolElliott Sprehn is a Principal Engineer with 15+ years building high-performance frontends and developer platforms across Google and Airbnb, currently leading frontend for Google Cloud Platform. He blends deep web-platform expertise—from shipping CSS/JS standards and Houdini APIs at Chromium to optimizing UI performance on SpaceX Dragon—with large-scale engineering leadership owning monorepos and developer experience for thousands of engineers. At Airbnb he led a 90-person org that transformed CI/CD, local dev tooling, and monorepo architecture, while at Google he co-founded early Flutter work and served as CTO for Grasshopper, scaling its backend 120x in a day. Elliott is an expert in JavaScript/TypeScript, C/C++, Bazel and web standards, and has hands-on open-source contributions to prominent projects like AngularJS. He’s comfortable moving between low-level performance wins and high-level platform strategy, and has a track record of shipping both developer-facing systems and consumer-facing apps at scale.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science Sociology Psychology, Computer Science Sociology Psychology at Montgomery CollegeBachelors of Science Computer Science / Mathematics, Bachelors of Science Computer Science / Mathematics at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
jquery10
angularjs10
testing10
html9
memory-leaks6
filesystem6
coldfusion6
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
angular/angular.js
Oct 2010 - Nov 2010
AngularJS - HTML enhanced for web apps!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Elliott primarily contributed to the AngularJS codebase, focusing on enhancements to the scenario runner and core functionalities. Their work involved fixing bugs related to IE compatibility, improving the scenario runner's DSL, and adding features for UI polish. They also implemented various jQuery methods for easier testing of web applications.
javascriptangularjsangularweb-apps
esprehn/fx-framework
Aug 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:58 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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