Raymond Lam
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaymond Lam is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems and currently works on Firebase Performance Monitoring at Google in Mountain View. He brings deep expertise in backend and tooling—having led IBM’s WAS L3 tooling and log analytics efforts to automate workflows and improve observability with ELK and MicroProfile Metrics. Raymond has a practical systems background from ASIC verification at AMD to web and full-stack work with Ruby on Rails and JavaScript, and he mentors and drives productivity improvements across teams. As an active contributor to the widely used firebase-android-sdk, he’s focused on performance, reliability, and hardening flaky behavior in mobile SDKs. Comfortable at the intersection of developer experience and observability, he pairs engineering rigor from an Engineering Science (BASc) at University of Toronto with a knack for turning tedious support processes into automated, maintainable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Engineering Science (Electrical and Computer Option), BASc, Engineering Science (Electrical and Computer Option) at University of Toronto
Github Skills (7)
javas10
sdk10
performance-optimization10
android10
firebase10
java10
testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firebase/firebase-android-sdk
Feb 2021 - Sep 2022
Firebase Android SDK
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:53 reviews, 5 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Raymond primarily focused on improving the performance and reliability of the Firebase Android SDK. They addressed StrictMode violations by moving shared preferences operations to a separate thread, fixed a flaky test related to shared preferences access, and added null checks to input and output streams for network connections. Additionally, they removed unnecessary code and clarified log statements within the SDK.
firebase-remote-configfirebase-databasefirebase-firestorefirebase-functionsdatabase-as-a-service
WASdev/sample.logmet.collector
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
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