Jeffrey Ching
Software Engineer at Google Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJeffrey Ching is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building and maintaining cloud client libraries and release automation for large-scale open-source projects. Based in Seattle, he currently contributes to Google Cloud's Languages team, blending backend development in Ruby/PHP with DevOps and release engineering. His open-source work spans major Google client libraries (Java, Node.js, PHP) and tooling like release-please and repo-automation-bots, where he improved CI/CD, automated releases, and added storage upload and stream-wrapper support. At Avvo he led platform and infrastructure efforts, demonstrating experience shipping production systems and mentoring engineers. Jeffrey combines meticulous API client development with practical automation skills—he’s as comfortable fixing parsing and auth edge cases as he is designing release strategies. A detail-oriented problem solver, he often surfaces subtle bugs in auth/token handling and improves tooling that benefits entire ecosystems.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Washington University in St. Louis
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
dependency-management10
json10
unit-testing10
github-ci10
google-cloud-platform10
docker10
parser10
apidoc10
elixir10
probot10
testing10
openid-connect10
user-authentication10
authentication10
bash10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
googleapis/release-please
Aug 2019 - Jan 2023
generate release PRs based on the conventionalcommits.org spec
Role in this project:
Back-end & Automation Engineer
Back-end & Automation EngineerContributions:644 reviews, 261 commits, 767 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey focused on enhancing the release process and build tooling within the `googleapis/release-please` repository, which involves generating release pull requests based on the conventionalcommits.org specification. Their work included implementing a generic Java strategy, adding a release PR factory, customizing changelog and release notes sections, and fixing various bugs. The commits demonstrate a strong understanding of automation, release engineering, and experience with a Java-based workflow.
golangchangelogpublishrelease-managementrelease-automation
JsonApiClient/json_api_client
Sep 2013 - Nov 2017
Build client libraries compliant with specification defined by jsonapi.org
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:203 commits, 140 PRs, 247 pushes in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Jeffrey primarily contributed to the `jsonapiclient/json_api_client` repository by addressing issues related to parsing JSON API responses and handling pagination. They implemented fixes for correctly parsing single records, and ensured the parser could handle pagination metadata from the server response. The user also refactored the codebase, moving the parser to a new location within the project structure and made several version bumps. Finally, they introduced support for including related data in the JSON API response, and modified the code base to accommodate a new top level linking structure.
jsonapijsonapiclientdefinedcompliantspecification
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