Jack La Barba
Software Engineer at Google
Oakland, California, United States
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Top SchoolJack La Barba is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience currently focused on engineering productivity at Google, helping partner teams accelerate delivery and maintain engineering excellence. Previously a Staff/Senior Engineer at PLOS, he led cross-functional teams to modernize data pipelines, migrate large VM fleets to AWS, and improve an NLP recommendation tool that raised editor-assignment accuracy by 10 percentage points. Comfortable across languages and stacks—from Java, Ruby on Rails, and Python to Typescript, BigQuery, and Pulumi—he blends hands-on systems design with DevOps and analytics expertise. Based in Oakland and self-described as “bean obsessed,” he pairs rigorous technical depth rooted in a UC Berkeley engineering background with a knack for making developer experiences fast, reliable, and pragmatic.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Nuclear Engineering, Nuclear Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (51)
multiclass-classification8
ruby-application8
ruby8
rubygems8
testing7
dependency-manager7
gaussian-mixture-models7
ember-data7
prediction6
thesaurus6
rfc6
factories6
session-management6
database5
rich-text-editor5
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
slimeate/dotfiles
Sep 2018 - Feb 2021
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
vimeverzsh-pluginsneovimvimrc
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