Jason Mccandless
Senior Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJason Mccandless is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with 17 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science focused on interpreter optimization, virtual machines, and JIT compilation. He brings deep systems and language-implementation expertise across C#, C/C++, Python, Clojure and numerous functional languages, coupled with strong skills in performance evaluation using statistical analysis and hardware counters. His background spans research into type systems and scripting-language idioms through to production-grade compiler and VM engineering. Based in New York, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering, often applying metaheuristic and cache-aware algorithm design to real-world performance problems. An unusual strength is his breadth across both low-level x86 assembly and high-level dynamic language implementation, enabling cross-layer optimizations that few engineers can execute end-to-end.
17 years of coding experience
BA (Mod.), Computer Science, BA (Mod.), Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
endpoint-security10
security10
authorization10
macos10
monitoring9
emacs9
vim8
audio-player6
audio-streaming6
audio6
spacemacs6
airplay6
api4
aip3
crypto3
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jasonmc/homepage
Sep 2023 - Jun 2026
Contributions:15 PRs, 69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
jasonmc/bits
Feb 2009 - Nov 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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