George Fairbanks
Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Fairbanks is a seasoned software engineer and technical architect with 11+ years of experience building large-scale systems and advising CTOs across finance and media. He led the design and production deployment of Hadoop-based big-data platforms—once implemented for Morgan Stanley and profiled in the Wall Street Journal—and has hands-on experience with Java, Scala, Pig, Python, Puppet, and AWS. As a manager he coordinated a 15-person, globally distributed team delivering high-throughput analytics; as an enterprise architect he held architecture roles at three NYC banks. He holds a Ph.D. in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and is the author of Just Enough Software Architecture, which underscores his practical, pragmatic approach to design. A frequent instructor and conference chair (SATURN, WICSA), he blends deep academic grounding with real-world delivery and a knack for recovering and modernizing brittle systems. Based in New York, he currently applies this mix of leadership and hands-on expertise as a technical lead at Google AdX.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderPh.D., Software Engineering, Ph.D., Software Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (15)
algorithm6
design-patterns6
powerset6
uml6
architecture6
software-design6
twine6
java6
paradigms5
artifacts5
nonlinear4
android4
microservices2
kubernetes1
docker1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
michaelkeeling/saturn2017-architecture-functional-workshop
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 months
saturnsoftware-architectureworkshopartifactsparadigms
michaelkeeling/future-of-software-design-workshop-2018
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 month
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