Greg Falcon
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Easton, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolGreg Falcon is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of hands-on C++ expertise, currently engineering core infrastructure at Google. He has a long track record dating back to roles at ITA Software and National Instruments, bringing deep systems-level experience to performance-critical code. An active contributor to the widely used Abseil C++ library, he focuses on internal implementations, optimizations, build improvements, and test coverage—work that subtly improves reliability and performance across many downstream projects. Based in Easton, Massachusetts, Greg pairs pragmatic engineering with a keen attention to low-level details like prefetching and internal logging utilities. His background in computer science from Lamar University underpins a career of quietly impactful, infrastructure-focused development.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Lamar University
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Github Skills (13)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
c-language10
lib10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
testing9
performance-optimization9
build-system8
bazel8
constexpr6
python6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
abseil/abseil-cpp
Oct 2017 - Dec 2022
Abseil Common Libraries (C++)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 10 pushes in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily contributes to the Abseil C++ library, focusing on internal implementations and optimizations. Their work involves modifying core components like `raw_hash_set.h`, and `status/status.cc`, and integrating new features like prefetch functions and internal logging utilities. The user has also enhanced the library's build process and expanded test coverage through the addition of new tests for char formatting and other core functionalities.
cpp
vslashg/8n1
Feb 2017 - Nov 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 6 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 10 months
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