Michael Le
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Le is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on Cloud Firestore at Google from his base in Mountain View. He brings practical backend expertise, having contributed notable Go improvements to the popular open-source FlatBuffers project—adding proto map support, table key lookups, and Go-specific robustness fixes. His tenure includes multiple Google internships across Ads and Analytics and hands-on roles that bridge high-scale cloud services and developer tooling. A McMaster-educated engineer who codes for fun, he combines production-grade system thinking with a penchant for improving developer experience and serialization performance.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Software Engineering at McMaster University
Github Skills (8)
go10
flatbuffers10
protocol-buffers10
code-generation9
data-serialization8
serialization8
cplus5
cpp5
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
google/flatbuffers
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 13 commits, 29 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the Go code generation aspect of the FlatBuffers library. They added support for proto map fields, which included modifications to the IDL parser and FBS code generation. Additionally, the user implemented key lookup support for tables in Go, improving data access efficiency. They also addressed Go-specific issues, like ensuring the `bytes` import for one-file generation and nil checks for string fields.
rpcmemorypythonmarshallingprotobuf
le-michael/setup-mcmaster-vpn-on-linux
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Guide for using McMaster's VPN on linux
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
vpnlinux
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