Jeff Bailey
Engineerining Manager III at Google
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJeff Bailey is an engineering leader with 26 years of experience who currently heads Google's Open Source Compliance and Productivity team from London. He has led large, cross-functional teams (up to 31 people) across legal, program management and engineering to improve open source policies, license compliance tooling, and Google's presence on GitHub. Previously he directed the Android Open Source Project and scaled compiler and performance infrastructure teams, blending deep systems and toolchain expertise with product-focused program management. A long-time open source enthusiast — “from before open source was a thing” — he still contributes code, for example improving Flutter speech-to-text plugins with null-safety and dependency upgrades. Jeff pairs hands-on technical contributions with executive-level change management, often modernizing build and compliance tooling at scale. He holds advanced degrees in IT and cybersecurity and brings a rare combination of operational rigor, security awareness, and historical perspective on open source.
26 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity and Information Assurance at Western Governors University
English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (9)
plugin-development10
flutter-game10
dart10
mobile-development10
flutter-apps10
null-safety10
flutter10
testing9
json8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
csdcorp/speech_to_text
Feb 2021 - Mar 2021
A Flutter plugin that exposes device specific text to speech recognition capability.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 25 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily focused on enhancing the speech-to-text Flutter plugin. Their work involved implementing null safety, a major update that increases the stability of Flutter plugins. They updated dependencies, and modified existing example applications, improving the functionality and compatibility of the speech-to-text capabilities within the Flutter environment. Further, this user corrected lint warnings, which improved code quality and maintained coding standards.
flutter-plugintext-to-speech
kaladron/galactic-bloodshed
Jul 2014 - Nov 2021
Galactic Bloodshed is one of the original online 4x games from the late 1980's.
Contributions:7 reviews, 1051 commits, 16 PRs in 7 years 6 months
gamegalacticgameslategame-development
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