Garrett Squire
Senior Software Engineer at Oracle
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Squire is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems using Rust, Go, and C++. He has shipped edge and CDN infrastructure at Cloudflare, contributed to Rust-based WAF and bot-detection services at AWS, and now works on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Garrett is an active open-source contributor—his work improving the iron web framework and DuckDuckGo instant-answer modules shows a knack for refining APIs, documentation, and parsing logic. Comfortable across systems-level engineering and backend services, he blends low-level programming language interests with pragmatic production engineering. Based in Seattle, he pairs a disciplined engineering approach with hobbies in baseball and photography that keep his curiosity and attention to detail sharp.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
regular-expression10
web-framework10
duckduckgo10
rust10
perl10
instantsearch10
api-design9
datetimes9
text-formatting9
formatting9
datetime9
documentation7
excel6
vba6
javascript5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
iron/iron
Apr 2015 - Aug 2016
An Extensible, Concurrent Web Framework for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 11 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Garrett focused on refactoring and enhancing the `iron/iron` web framework. They removed default ports in the display trait for URLs, improved code by utilizing slices, and added a remote address to the formatting string. Furthermore, they updated the display of response status codes and addressed documentation issues within the code, specifically mentioning Hyper threading model in documentation.
concurrencyrustframeworkextensibleweb-framework
duckduckgo/zeroclickinfo-goodies
Aug 2013 - Aug 2013
DuckDuckGo Instant Answers based on Perl & JavaScript
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Garrett primarily contributed to the development of the `Week.pm` Perl module within the DuckDuckGo Instant Answers project. Their work included implementing the initial functionality for the module, adding metadata, refining the input parsing using regular expressions, and integrating more natural language queries. The commits demonstrate the user's ability to translate requirements into code, improve the module's usability, and respond to feedback and project evolution.
javascriptduckduckgoinstant-answersperlinstant
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