Oscar Shi is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems at Google after early stints designing distributed rate limiting at Uber and embedded/python tooling at Wind River. Based in Palo Alto, he blends a pragmatic engineering style with a strong interest in infosec and game hacking, evidenced by hackathon wins and a history of shipping production services and game features. He has moved from hands-on platform work in Fuchsia and multi-region systems to senior roles at Google, consistently improving observability, dependency management, and latency. Known for cutting through complexity, Oscar combines systems-level thinking with practical implementation—often tackling areas where public guidance is sparse, such as multi-zone rate limiting and cross-platform integrations.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Contributions:2 releases, 21 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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