Greg Cowan
Software Engineer at WhatsApp
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Cowan is a software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, currently working on webserver infrastructure at WhatsApp's Account Infra team. He specializes in distributed databases, account lifecycle features, and privacy-related data flows, and brings deep practical knowledge of networking, peer-to-peer algorithms, and reliability engineering. His background spans embedded robotics (C++11, Rust, Python), full-stack web development, and operational tooling, showing a rare comfort moving between firmware, servers, and front-end. Greg thinks obsessively about performance and correctness, and has applied that ethic to projects ranging from Alphabot robot logic to scalable account deletion and avatar services. Based in Seattle, he holds an MS and BS in Computer Science from Rensselaer and enjoys mentoring—evidenced by years teaching data structures and coaching robotics teams.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
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Github Skills (51)
web-application9
ghost9
fedora9
voice-assistant9
nodejs9
arch9
rust9
nlp8
compiler8
journalism8
jamstack8
jekyll-theme8
checker8
linux8
standard-library8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cowang4/rusty_primes
Aug 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
cowang4/S4h
Feb 2019 - Nov 2023
A P2P Search Engine with Explicit Trust
Contributions:97 PRs, 107 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
search-enginesp2ptrustsearch-enginetantivy
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