Shane Exterkamp
Senior Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolShane Exterkamp is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant web frontends and CI tooling, currently working on generative AI at Google DeepMind in Mountain View. He spent several years improving Chrome DevTools’ Lighthouse—making performance metrics clearer, mobile-friendly, and adding PWA audits—and later helped ship web frontend features for Google Fi. Shane blends front-end craftsmanship with DevOps experience, having refactored Lighthouse CI workflows and automated CI/CD for auditing sites. Early career work includes cloud automation, data pipeline modernization, and internal developer tooling at Nielsen, showing a knack for bridging legacy systems and modern cloud architectures. He’s comfortable moving between UI polish and infrastructure, and often focuses on measurable improvements to developer and user-facing tooling.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Niceville High SchoolBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Florida
Github Skills (13)
github-ci10
javascript10
user-interface10
githubaction-workflow10
pwapp10
cicd10
performance-testing9
html9
css9
configuration-management9
report-builder8
report-generator8
accessibility7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleChrome/lighthouse
Sep 2018 - Nov 2021
Automated auditing, performance metrics, and best practices for the web.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 3 reviews, 134 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Shane primarily contributed to the Lighthouse project by modifying and enhancing the report's UI and functionality. Their work included improving the presentation of performance metrics, such as making the performance category more compact and enhancing the layout for narrow screens. Additionally, they addressed bugs, fixed common typos, and updated the themeing of the report. The user was also responsible for adding and improving the display of new PWA metrics, like the addition of a new audit for Apple touch icons.
performance-analysisauditperformance-metricsdeveloper-toolslighthouse
treosh/lighthouse-ci-action
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Audit URLs using Lighthouse and test performance with Lighthouse CI.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:21 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 2 days
Contributions summary:Shane focused on configuring and maintaining the CI/CD pipeline. They refactored the action to use LHCI, including changes to the configuration and build process. The user also updated the action to correctly handle URLs and static site directories, as well as address upload configurations.
urlsauditperformance-budgetlighthouseperformance
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