Jack Ellenberger
Software Engineer at Google
Chicago, Illinois, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJack Ellenberger is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient, large-scale systems across payments, observability, and cloud infrastructure. Currently at Google working on Access Transparency for Cloud Security & Privacy, he focuses on reducing insider risk by making internal access to customer data auditable. Previously he led reliability and tooling efforts at New Relic’s Kafka platform and delivered zero-downtime, multi-region search and payments improvements at Braintree, including significant Google Pay integration work in the popular braintree_android SDK. Comfortable across backend, mobile, and DevOps domains, he’s driven migrations, performance optimizations, CI/CD cost reductions, and schema-driven API validation. Based in Chicago, he pairs a pragmatic, results-first engineering style with a penchant for playful experimentation—an “emojartist” who nevertheless ships secure, production-grade systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Chicago
Github Skills (7)
sdk10
payment10
android10
google-pay10
java9
android-sdk9
javas9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
braintree/braintree_android
Oct 2018 - Feb 2019
Braintree SDK for Android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:1 release, 13 commits, 1 push in 4 months
Contributions summary:Jack primarily contributed to the Google Pay integration within the Braintree Android SDK. Their work included adding support for Google Pay V2, refactoring existing Google Pay functionality, and updating the demo application to utilize the latest Google Pay APIs. They also addressed issues related to optional shipping parameters and the handling of Google Pay-related data. These contributions demonstrate a focus on payment processing and integrating with third-party payment services within the Android SDK environment.
paymentsin-app-purchasecredit-cardbraintree-sdkandroid
jackellenberger/jack.ellenberger.zone
Jul 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 10 months
zone
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