Jason Hu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, England, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Hu is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cambridge with seven years of experience building high-impact mobile and search products at Google and prior internships at Facebook and startups. He specializes in iOS development and has contributed bug fixes and integrations to the widely used Firebase iOS SDK, touching Firestore, Functions, InAppMessaging, DynamicLinks, and Crashlytics. At Google he has moved from engineering roles into senior responsibility on search-related projects, pairing product-facing features with low-level platform reliability fixes. A former UVA computer science graduate, he combines strong engineering fundamentals with a penchant for shipping pragmatic solutions that scale. Outside work he’s a game developer, musician, and avid roller coaster enthusiast — interests that reflect both creative curiosity and a tolerance for high-velocity experiences.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Virginia
English
Github Skills (21)
objective-c10
ios10
crashlytics10
crash10
sdk10
firebase10
testing8
swift4
cloud-storage3
firebase-db3
firebase-messaging3
authentication3
firebase-database3
backend-as-a-service3
firebase-authentication3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-ios-sdk
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Firebase SDK for Apple App Development
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:51 commits, 68 PRs, 151 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the iOS SDK of the Firebase project, focusing on bug fixes and code improvements. Their work involved addressing Xcode analysis issues, modifying code across several files in the SDK, including Firestore, Firebase Functions, InAppMessaging and DynamicLinks. The commits also include integration of GoogleDataTransport in Crashlytics to report crashes and fixes in testing and settings related to crash reporting.
firebase-databasefirebase-functionsdatabase-as-a-serviceremote-configios
firebase/SpecsStaging
May 2019 - Jan 2020
SpecsStaging
Contributions:23 commits, 8 PRs, 19 pushes in 8 months
ruby
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