Liam Miller-cushon
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolLiam Miller-cushon is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, based in San Francisco and currently at Google, focused on Java backend systems, build tooling, and compiler internals. He has a strong track record of improving compatibility across Java versions and fixing intricate build, bytecode, and type-inference issues in high-profile open-source projects such as Apache Beam, OpenJDK, Bazel, Dagger, and Guava. His work spans build engineering, test automation, and low-level runtime/bytecode concerns—often addressing subtle cross-version quirks and compiler edge cases that keep large ecosystems healthy. A University of Waterloo computer science graduate, Liam combines deep technical rigor with an eye for maintainability and tooling performance.
15 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (88)
dependency-management10
annotations10
testing10
guideline10
test-framework10
hadoop10
refactor10
javas10
type-system10
junit10
code-generation10
build-automation10
reflections10
refactoring10
optimization10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
google/error-prone
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
Catch common Java mistakes as compile-time errors
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 230 reviews, 1902 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Liam contributed to the `error-prone` project, focusing on the Java codebase and likely working on refactoring and bug fixes. The commits involve changes to method signatures and implementation details of existing functionalities, but also touches on low-level changes to the core framework. The commits touch on Java API and the internal details of javac.
compile-timemistakescompilestatic-code-analysisjava-common
bazelbuild/bazel
Feb 2015 - Jan 2023
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Build Engineer
Back-end Developer & Build EngineerContributions:116 reviews, 1160 commits, 123 PRs in 8 years
Contributions summary:Liam's commits primarily involve contributions to Bazel's Java build tooling, specifically focusing on improving the performance, reliability, and functionality of Java compilation and the generation of deployable artifacts. Their work includes fixing potential deadlocks, optimizing the process of creating class file outputs and dependency information, improving integration tests, refactoring existing implementations, and migrating legacy systems. They also made changes to support Java 17 features and improve handling of external resources.
scalablecorrectbazelmulti-languagebuild-system
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