Jaana Dogan
Principal Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarJaana Dogan is a Principal Engineer based in San Francisco with 14 years of experience building cloud-native systems and developer tooling across Google, GitHub, and AWS. She combines deep Go expertise with hands-on work in core projects like the Go language, golang/mobile, and high-profile observability tools such as OpenTelemetry and OpenCensus. Her contributions span backend, DevOps, and mobile audio integrations—implementing OpenAL bindings, profiling UIs, exporters, and critical build/tooling fixes. A pragmatic engineer who moves between product code and infrastructure, she’s improved developer experience in widely used tools like cmd/go, dep/getgo, and gops. Jaana is also an active open-source maintainer and tool author (rakyll/hey, boom, statik), known for thoughtful refactors that improve reliability and usability. She maintains a public technical presence (twitter.com/rakyll) and often surfaces non-obvious platform nuances, like platform-specific audio and iOS/networking quirks, in her work.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
dependency-management10
programming-language10
google-cloud-platform10
mobile-development10
web-application10
m-files10
testing10
distributed-tracing10
command-line-interface10
http10
authentication10
exporter10
refactor10
ruby10
javas10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
rakyll/statik
Apr 2015 - Nov 2019
Embed files into a Go executable
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 14 commits, 26 PRs in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jaana primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `statik` repository, which is designed to embed files into a Go executable. Their commits focused on improving the codebase's robustness and efficiency by addressing potential errors and optimizing file handling. They refactored code to improve readability and maintainability and used `go generate` which aligns with the project's goal.
golangembed-filesexecutablehttp-servergo
google/gops
Nov 2016 - Sep 2020
A tool to list and diagnose Go processes currently running on your system
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 2 reviews, 107 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Jaana focused on enhancing the functionality of the gops tool, a Go-based process diagnostic tool. Their contributions included adding features for memory and CPU profiling, garbage collection stats, and Go version reporting, along with refactoring and the introduction of subcommands. Furthermore, the user refactored the codebase to use Go modules. Their work involved implementing the agent for gops and handling various diagnostic commands.
go-toolsgolangheap-profilecpu-profilediagnose
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