Emily Shaffer
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Shaffer is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience blending embedded systems expertise and large-scale source control leadership at Google. She leads open source strategy for the Source org and has deep roots in git development, previously serving as tech lead for git-core and contributing upstream to the Git project. Her background spans firmware, IPMI stack maintenance for OpenBMC, and inventory systems at Amazon Robotics, reflecting a rare fluency across hardware, firmware, and cloud-scale tooling. Passionate about privacy and free software, she currently focuses on privacy work at Google while maintaining strong OSS relationships between internal teams and external projects. Collected from practical experience and a computer engineering degree, she brings a pragmatic, systems-level approach to bridging hardware and software.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Non-Degree-Seeking, N/A, Non-Degree-Seeking, N/A at Central Michigan UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering (m. Computer Science, Mathematics), cum laude, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering (m. Computer Science, Mathematics), cum laude at Northeastern UniversityHigh School Diploma, N/A, 3.8, High School Diploma, N/A, 3.8 at Sacred Heart Academy High School
Github Skills (21)
python10
flask-application10
security10
onion-service10
tor10
share-files10
cross-platform9
file-sharing9
chat9
journalism9
usability8
privacy8
open-source8
clipboard5
ubuntu3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
commandnotfound/diiiv
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
divisionemmanuelseniorsenior-projectiii
commandnotfound/commandnotfound.github.io
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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