Eric Dalquist
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Dalquist is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google with over 21 years of experience designing and optimizing backend systems and cloud services. He brings deep JVM and data-access expertise from long-term work on projects like Hibernate ORM and the higher-education uPortal, where he improved query correctness, indexing, and performance bottlenecks. A veteran open-source contributor since 2001, he blends pragmatic engineering with specification-level work (JSR107 caching annotations) that surfaces in robust, production-grade caching and entity-loading behavior. Based in Kirkland, Washington, Eric is known for making “fast clouds”—focusing on subtle data-model and API improvements that yield outsized reliability and speed gains.
21 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Michigan Technological UniversityHancock Central High School
Github Skills (20)
jakartaee10
caching10
object-mapping10
annotations10
java10
javas10
hibernate10
persistence10
orm10
sql10
database-design10
jpa10
annotate10
persist10
databases9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
uPortal-Project/uPortal
Jul 2004 - Apr 2014
Enterprise open source portal built by and for the higher education community.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3081 commits in 9 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily worked on fixing database query-related issues within the uPortal framework, improving the handling of duplicate results by implementing `uniqueResult` and addressing performance bottlenecks. They also made significant changes to improve data handling by adding indexes, switching date/time dimension datatypes, and addressing issues with JGroups and portal cookie handling. Their contributions focused on improving the performance and reliability of core data access layers within the uPortal framework.
open-source-portalcommunity-educationgradlesoffithigher-education
jsr107/jsr107spec
May 2011 - Feb 2012
JSR107 Cache Specification
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the development of annotations and supporting classes for a caching specification. They implemented annotations like Cacheable, CacheResult, CacheRemoveEntry, and CacheRemoveAll, introducing key concepts for cache interaction within the JSR107 specification. The user also created support classes such as DefaultCacheKey, DefaultCacheKeyGenerator, and DefaultCacheResolver to facilitate the annotation's functionality. Furthermore, they added features like caching null values and handling exception caching.
javaspecificationcache
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