Josh Gargus
Software Engineer at Google
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolJosh Gargus is a software engineer and researcher with 14 years of experience building distributed media and real-time collaboration systems, currently at Google in Redwood City. His background spans startups and enterprise roles—from architecting distributed media at Teleplace to developing WebOS media apps and contributing Android UI improvements to AOSP contacts—bringing deep expertise in audio/video streaming, realtime 3D, and object-oriented design. He enjoys pushing the final 10% of product polish to create delightful user experiences and pairs that product focus with a taste for computational aesthetics. Josh combines practical systems engineering with machine learning fluency, making him comfortable across low-latency networking, client rendering, and backend scalability. An avid tinkerer, he has hands-on experience improving mobile UX and high-resolution media support in widely used open-source Android components.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at University of AlbertaM.Sc., Computer Science, M.Sc., Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
aosp-mirror/platform_packages_apps_contacts
Nov 2011 - May 2012
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:127 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and fixing visual bugs within the Android Contacts application. Their work involved modifying Java files, specifically PeopleActivity and DialtactsActivity, to address layout issues, improve photo presentation, and implement new features like high-resolution photo support. They also made improvements to the search functionality and user interface, contributing to an enhanced user experience within the app.
schwa423/escher
Sep 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:83 pushes, 181 branches in 1 year
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