James Deboer
Senior Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Deboer is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building and architecting full-stack systems across startups and large legacy codebases, currently at Google. He blends broad ownership across the stack with deep technical contributions, particularly in front-end frameworks, having fixed bugs and improved performance in the AngularDart project. A pragmatic founder (Infinite Unit) who cares about team happiness and productivity, he seeks long-term, high-impact engineering challenges. His Waterloo computer science background and long tenure at Google reflect strong foundations and sustained delivery in complex environments. Colleagues rely on him to both modernize legacy systems and ship well-architected new features. An appetite for thoughtful tooling and incremental optimization shows up in careful test work and change-detection improvements on open-source UI code.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bacheloar of Mathematics, Honours Computer Science - Co-op, Bacheloar of Mathematics, Honours Computer Science - Co-op at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (8)
dart10
text-parsing10
parsing10
html-parsing10
par10
file-parsing10
front-end-development9
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
angulardart/angular
Dec 2018 - Jun 2019
Fast and productive web framework provided by Dart
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:70 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 5 months
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to the Angular Dart framework by implementing tests and fixing bugs related to component compilation, template parsing, and view rendering. They addressed issues such as incorrect member annotations, invalid template URIs, and problems with event bindings. The user also worked on code optimization, improving performance by introducing a TextBinder helper class for change detection and removing unnecessary toString() calls.
dartframeworkweb-frameworkproductive
TeamTriad/angular.dart
Sep 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 8 months
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