Jonathan Godbout
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Godbout is a Senior Software Engineer at Google with a decade of experience building large-scale systems for flight search and reporting, routinely coding in C++, Java, and Lisp. He blends strong mathematical training (MS and PhD work in mathematics) with practical backend engineering, having contributed semaphore enhancements to the well-known Clozure Common Lisp runtime to improve synchronization primitives. His background spans REST services and service-bus architectures from work at Newmarket/Amadeus to production systems at Google, showing comfort across legacy and modern stacks. Based in Cambridge, MA, he pairs rigorous algorithmic thinking with hands-on implementation, often tackling low-level concurrency and performance problems that sit between research and production.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Mathematics, 3.93, Masters of Science, Mathematics, 3.93 at University of VermontDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics at University of New HampshireEssex High School
Github Skills (5)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
common-lisp10
lisp10
synchronization10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Clozure/ccl
May 2020 - May 2020
Clozure Common Lisp
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 13 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on modifying the `make-semaphore` function in the Clozure Common Lisp (CCL) project. Their main contribution was adding a `count` argument to the `make-semaphore` function, allowing for initialization of semaphores with a specific count. This involved changes to the underlying `make-semaphore-ptr` function as well. This modification streamlines semaphore creation and improves synchronization capabilities within the CCL environment.
common-lispcompilerlispcclclozure-cl
qitab/grpc
May 2022 - Aug 2022
gRPC implementation for Common Lisp
Contributions:18 reviews, 50 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
common-lispgrpc
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