Gary Menezes
Software Engineer at Research Team @ University of California, Berkeley & The University of Toronto
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Menezes is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building product-driven systems at Google, Apple, and research teams at UC Berkeley and University of Toronto. He excels at owning ambiguous problem spaces—driving cross-team alignment at Google Cloud Storage and reducing crawler bug turnaround by 10x at Apple—while mentoring junior engineers and shipping end-to-end features. Comfortable across backend, Golang, Python, and full-stack web apps, he has also delivered tooling and metrics to codify ownership boundaries in large shared codebases. After a purposeful sabbatical spent competing in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, converting a van to an RV, and exploring personal projects, he is focused on senior IC roles with high product impact and a path toward leadership. Notably, he has hands-on experience shipping Agentic AI features in an academic research environment, blending practical engineering with research-driven innovation.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Webster Schroeder High SchoolMaster of Science in Engineering (MSE), Computer and Information Sciences, Master of Science in Engineering (MSE), Computer and Information Sciences at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (15)
django6
python5
job-queue5
redis5
rq4
task-queue4
lua4
queue4
golang3
portable1
exchange1
linux1
internet1
openbsd1
daemon1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gdmen/mathgame-meteor
Oct 2015 - Aug 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 2 branches, 3 issues in 3 years 10 months
gdmen/java_chess
May 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years
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