Jeff Bowman
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Bowman is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and tech lead with 10+ years at Google, currently coordinating Maps Platform SDKs across Android, iOS, and JavaScript as a "tech lead of tech leads." He excels at untangling large, messy codebases—improving architecture, build efficiency, testing, and dependency injection—and has deep expertise in Java/Android, TypeScript/JavaScript, and object‑oriented design. A practical advocate for solid APIs, he turns accumulated hacks into maintainable solutions and regularly contributes expert answers on Guice, Dagger, and Mockito on StackOverflow (top 0.2% by reputation). He pairs hands‑on implementation experience with cross‑platform system thinking from mobile to web, and quietly pursues a breadth of interests including Kotlin, C/C++, Python, and modern frontend frameworks. Based in San Jose, he balances technical leadership with community roles—serving on the executive team of a large local fan convention—and brings a pilot’s discipline and a dancer’s timing to team coordination and project delivery.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science, B.A., Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Stackoverflow
93,488reputation
8.6mreached
1,389answers
2questions
unix
top-5%
guice
top-1%
java
top-1%
maven
top-5%
git
top-5%
regex
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Github Skills (95)
kml10
google-places10
testing10
bash10
geojson10
guice10
junit10
google-maps10
elevation10
client-library10
sdk10
dependency-injection10
location-services10
console10
typescript10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googlemaps/android-maps-compose
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Jetpack Compose composables for the Maps SDK for Android
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 month
jetpack-composelanguage-extensionandroidcomposejetpack
googlemaps/js-types
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Automatically generated types for the Google Maps Platform JavaScript API
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 comments in 25 days
apitypescript-definitionsgooglejavascriptgoogle-maps-platform
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