Shane Carr
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolShane Carr is a Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience specializing in internationalization and locale engineering. At Google he leads ICU4X to deliver compact, high-performance i18n libraries for next-generation devices, driving post-1.0 client integration and cross-language tooling in Rust, C++, TypeScript, Java, and Python. He chairs key standards efforts — the ICU4X technical committee and the ECMA-402 i18n subcommittee at TC39 — shaping how Unicode and JavaScript handle global text and formatting. His background blends applied research in Bayesian machine learning for surface science with hands-on production engineering, a combination that informs both rigorous design and measurable performance wins (e.g., locale data size reduction and spoof detection work). Known for revamping curricula and authoring enduring teaching materials, he brings a strong mentorship and systems-thinking orientation to large-scale, interoperable software.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Campbell Montessori SchoolCollege Preparatory School, College Preparatory School at Whitfield SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering and Computer Science, Minor in Nanotechnology, Summa Cum Laude, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Chemical Engineering and Computer Science, Minor in Nanotechnology, Summa Cum Laude at Washington University in St. Louis
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Github Skills (190)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
vote539/DefinitelyTyped
Jan 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 6 months
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sffc/rung-rage
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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