Guray Alsac
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGuray Alsac is a seasoned software engineer with over 11 years of experience building scalable backend systems at top-tier companies including Google and Amazon. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has deep expertise in high-volume Java services, cloud-native Python apps, and operational reliability, with production experience moving workloads from Cloud Functions to Cloud Run and integrating Redis and cloud storage. His work on Google’s exposure-notifications reference server demonstrates applied experience in public-health-focused open-source engineering and secure data export workflows. Early career roles at NASA contractor United Space Alliance and American Express reflect a strong foundation in real-time systems, voice platforms, and tooling for operators. Guray is comfortable both shipping critical production features and mentoring peers, and he has a track record of delivering high-impact projects recognized by senior leadership. He combines rigorous academic training (MS in Computer Science) with hands-on, cross-domain engineering that spans eCommerce, mission-critical systems, and cloud infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. and B.A., Computer Science and Philosophy, B.S. and B.A., Computer Science and Philosophy at Arizona State UniversityM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
python, lisp, shell scripting
Github Skills (11)
google-cloud-storage10
corvid10
go10
exposure-notification10
python10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
google-app-engine9
redis9
flask8
flask-ask8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
google/exposure-notifications-server
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Exposure Notification Reference Server | Covid-19 Exposure Notifications
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 52 commits, 17 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Guray's contributions primarily focused on developing backend functionality for an exposure notification reference server. They implemented a basic Python AppEngine app interacting with a Redis cache. The user also added functions triggered by Cloud Scheduler that write to a cloud storage bucket. Further work involved switching from a cloud function to Cloud Run for batch publishing, including fleshing out database query logic and initial decryption implementation. Finally, they added a proto for exporting IDs.
exposure-notificationnotificationsnotificationexposureexposure-notifications
gurayAlsac/exposure-notifications-server
May 2020 - Aug 2020
Exposure Notification Reference Server | Covid-19 Exposure Notifications
Contributions:17 pushes, 29 branches in 3 months
exposure-notificationnotificationsnotificationexposureexposure-notifications
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