Emmanuel Oga
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Oga is a senior software engineer with over a decade of experience building large-scale consumer streaming experiences, including years at Google and YouTube and recent roles at Crunchyroll and Chime. He excels at turning ambiguous product goals into shipped features, debugging complex cross-device integration issues, and making pragmatic trade-offs that favor correctness and maintainability over cleverness. His work on the YouTube Living Room app and set-top box UI shows deep expertise in performance-constrained environments and low-latency input systems. An active contributor to open-source projects like ffaker, he brings practical back-end data tooling experience alongside full-stack skills. Outside day-to-day work he experiments with AI tooling—e.g., using OpenAI to generate structured language explorer data—demonstrating a curiosity for applying ML to developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Técnico Electrónica, Técnico Electrónica at ORT ArgentinaLicenciatura Computer Science, Licenciatura Computer Science at University of Buenos Aires
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (12)
data-generation10
localization10
ruby10
duck-typing6
algorithm6
eclipse6
indentation6
hash6
idioms6
regex6
testing6
api-design4
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
ffaker/ffaker
Jul 2014 - Aug 2014
Faker refactored.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Emmanuel primarily contributed to the `ffaker/ffaker` repository by adding and modifying data generation modules focused on various locales, including Mexico, Netherlands, and Finland. Their work involved implementing data structures and methods for generating realistic-looking data, such as phone numbers, addresses, and identification numbers. The contributions included fixing minor issues for compatibility and releasing new versions of the library.
testingrefactoredfaker
EmmanuelOga/plangs2
Jun 2024 - Feb 2025
A database of programming languages.
Contributions:34 PRs, 1023 pushes, 24 branches in 7 months
curationprogramming-languages
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