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Gus Class is a seasoned software engineer and developer programs leader with 13 years designing full-stack systems, cloud IoT solutions, games services, and developer experiences across Google, Microsoft, and stealth hardware startups. He blends hands-on engineering—from embedded firmware, FPGA and PCB bring-up to cloud-native IoT ingestion and data analysis—with developer advocacy, creating widely used samples, demos, and trainings that have been showcased at Google I/O and other conferences. An active open-source contributor, Gus has authored and maintained Google Cloud, Play Games, Vision, Speech, and Arduino samples that power real-world integrations and tutorials. He pairs strong written and presentation skills with pragmatic architecture work, and quietly combines deep low-level hardware know-how with high-level API design to accelerate developer adoption. Based in Seattle, he holds a CS BS and an MBA in Technical Management from the University of Washington.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computers and Software Systems, BS, Computers and Software Systems at University of Washington
Contributions:22 releases, 9 reviews, 94 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gus primarily contributed to example code and documentation for the Google Cloud IoT Arduino library. Their work included adding and updating examples for various ESP32 and ESP8266 boards, integrating with the OV2640 camera, and incorporating communication using the lwMQTT library. They also made improvements to the library itself, fixing bugs, refactoring code, and adjusting network configurations to increase the reliability of the library.
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Gus's commits primarily involve modifications within the Android-specific samples related to Google Play game services. These changes address SDK updates, including adapting to API changes and updating Gradle configurations, indicating a focus on keeping the sample code compatible with the latest versions. The user also contributed to the UI and integration of features such as snapshots, quests, events, and request handling, showing a working knowledge of the Google Play game services APIs.
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