Gord Larson
Staff Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGord Larson is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building maintainable systems at Waymo and Google. He has progressed from hands-on software engineering to technical leadership roles, driving reliability and long-lived architecture for complex autonomous systems. Gord combines a software engineering degree from UBC with practical full-stack and tooling experience gained across startups and co-ops, including backend processing, DevOps automation, and embedded imaging data work. He has a track record of improving developer velocity—streamlining environments, migrations, and testing pipelines—to make large codebases easier to evolve. Outside core engineering, Gord’s early entrepreneurial and club-treasurer roles show a knack for operational ownership and clear communication across technical and nontechnical stakeholders.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering (Software Engineering Option), Bachelor of Applied Science, Computer Engineering (Software Engineering Option) at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (14)
android-app7
rpg7
ios6
android5
nlp5
crawler4
javascript3
dynamic3
pytorch3
crawling3
bert3
dom3
nodejs2
web-testing1
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Github contributions (5)
gnarph/gnarph.github.io
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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