Ivy Gooch
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolIvy Gooch is a software engineer with a decade of experience building backend and cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Google from Seattle. She has strong expertise in backend and DevOps work, evidenced by notable open-source contributions to Google’s Agones project for scalable multiplayer game servers, where she added allocation sorting, SDK integrations, gRPC methods, and REST improvements. Her background blends an MS in Computer Science with earlier roles across finance and international banking, giving her an uncommon combination of technical depth and business-oriented problem solving. Ivy has practical experience in Python and Java from industry internships and co-ops, and a track record of improving infrastructure and CI/test workflows. Comfortable working at the intersection of systems and developer tooling, she focuses on making distributed services more reliable and observable. Outside engineering, her dual BA in French and International Business Finance hints at cross-cultural communication skills that support global product work.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
BA French, BA French at University of WashingtonBA International Business Finance, BA International Business Finance at UW Foster School of BusinessMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Northeastern University
English, French
Github Skills (19)
api-rest10
kubernetes10
api-design10
restful-api10
gameserver10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
golang10
rest-api10
server10
grpc10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
devops9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
googleforgames/agones
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:546 reviews, 3 commits, 157 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ivy primarily contributes to the development and maintenance of the Agones dedicated game server hosting platform, focusing on improvements related to game server allocation, and SDK integration. The user implemented new features, such as the ability to sort GameServerAllocation based on Counters and Lists and introduced the ability to perform actions on these in the allocation request. They also worked on integrating changes with the SDK, added gRPC methods, and improved the rest api endpoints. The user's commits also include updates to infrastructure components such as Cloud Build and testing.
golanghostingagonesdedicated-game-serversgames
igooch/agones
Nov 2022 - Apr 2025
Dedicated Game Server Hosting and Scaling for Multiplayer Games on Kubernetes
Contributions:941 pushes, 67 branches in 2 years 4 months
hostinggamesdedicatedgame-servergame-server-hosting
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