Jason Runkle
Software Engineer at Google
Oceanside, California, United States
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Top SchoolJason Runkle is a senior software engineer and tech lead at Google with 11 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems for analytics. Based in Oceanside, CA, he brings a background that blends hardware support and critical incident management with software engineering, giving him a practical, customer-focused approach to problem resolution. At Google he leads teams on large-scale analytics products, while outside work he contributes to well-known Exercism tracks in Java and Go—improving exercises, tests, and code quality tooling. His early training in mechanical engineering and embedded C programming for autonomous robots informs a systems-minded perspective and attention to correctness. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful test automation, refactoring, and pragmatic design decisions that reduce operational risk.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at University of Notre Dame
Spanish
Github Skills (11)
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junit10
go10
java10
test-automation10
testing10
software-quality9
co7
cc7
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
exercism/java
Jun 2019 - Dec 2021
Exercism exercises in Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:75 reviews, 46 commits, 124 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily focused on updating and improving existing Java exercises within the repository. Their contributions involved updating exercise versions and tests, including refactoring existing tests to use more modern assertion libraries. The user also fixed style and implementation issues within the exercises. Furthermore, they were responsible for implementing a new exercise, and making updates to existing ones.
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exercism/go
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Exercism exercises in Go.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:102 reviews, 27 commits, 128 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the `exercism/go` repository by modifying Go code for various exercises. They added missing parameters to stubs and fixed tests to work with the new structure, indicating a focus on resolving implementation issues and ensuring code correctness. Further modifications included addressing gocritic complaints, suggesting they are focused on code quality. These changes show that the user is likely improving the usability of the exercises, which includes fixing issues.
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