Roger Lucena
Software Engineer at Google
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoger Lucena is a software engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance C++ and Go systems, currently improving ad relevance and backend integrations for YouTube Search at Google Zurich. He holds advanced degrees from École Polytechnique and Sorbonne and brings a strong foundation in applied mathematics and computer science from ITA, combining rigorous academic training with hands-on production engineering. His background spans temporal graph stores, probabilistic models and game engine graphics—contributions include extending BadWolf’s graph query language (BQL), adding FILTER and profiling integrations, and refactoring core lexical and evaluation components. Comfortable across systems, backend and tooling, he has tackled optimization, traceability and developer UX in open-source and enterprise contexts. Notably, his profile blends military discipline and early teaching experience with international research work at SRI, reflecting a pragmatic, methodical approach to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School, 4 / 4, High School, 4 / 4 at COC SchoolEngineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica - ITAHigh School and Electrotechnical Technician degree, High School and Electrotechnical Technician degree at IFMA - Federal Institute of Education, Science and TechnologyHigh School, 3.92 / 4, High School, 3.92 / 4 at Farias Brito SchoolBSc and MSc in Engineering (Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, BSc and MSc in Engineering (Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program), Computer Science and Applied Mathematics at École PolytechniqueMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Sorbonne University
German, Portuguese, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (5)
go10
lexical-analysis10
refactoring10
refactor10
documentation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
google/badwolf
Jun 2020 - Nov 2020
Temporal graph store abstraction layer.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 261 commits, 38 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Roger contributed significantly to the documentation, fixing examples for BQL, and refactoring the code to improve readability. The commits involved changing code related to the BQL language, including lexical analysis, and evaluation expressions. The user also worked on adding new features and improving the code by refactoring it.
graph-storetemporalgraphabstraction-layerabstraction
rogerlucena/badwolf
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
Temporal graph store abstraction layer.
Contributions:396 pushes, 81 branches in 5 months
graph-storetemporalgraphabstraction-layerabstraction
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