Rene Sugar
Senior Software Developer at Self-Employed
Earth, Texas, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRene Sugar is a senior software developer with 8+ years of professional experience and a much longer history of engineering contributions dating back to Exchange Server work at Microsoft. He specializes in refactoring, performance-minded C++ systems, data formats and tooling—demonstrated by open-source work translating Cap’n Proto to Parquet, Parquet import/export tooling, and contributions to Apache Arrow and Parquet libraries. Rene combines hands-on coding with technical leadership for cost reduction in client projects and has built utilities that run both inside larger platforms and as standalone CLI tools. He also implements algorithmic solutions—authoring a practical perfect-hash generator—and integrates static analysis and improved build tooling to raise code quality. Based in Texas (Canada listed), Rene blends deep systems expertise with pragmatic tooling that helps teams move data reliably between formats and systems.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Victoria
Github Skills (100)
toolbox10
windows10
to-do10
parquet10
javascript10
linux10
webdav10
evernote10
electron10
in-memory10
onedrive10
java10
android10
dropbox10
nodejs10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
renesugar/sqlines
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
SQLines Open Source Database Migration Tools
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 14 pushes in 3 months
mysqlsqlsqlitedatabase-migrationdatabase
renesugar/SwiftKotlin
Jul 2018 - Nov 2020
A tool to convert Swift code to Kotlin.
Contributions:6 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
kotlinswift
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