Sherman Pay
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSherman Pay is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building backend infrastructure and language tooling, currently focused on content-safety compilers and DSLs at Google. He has led cross-functional projects including the SQL Server Database Migration Service integration with Cloud SQL and contributed core systems in Go, Clojure and C++ across Cloud SQL and Content-Safety. His work spans designing production-grade compilers and a Python-like DSL ecosystem, as well as implementing a Clojure dialect in Go—demonstrating deep language and systems expertise beyond typical backend engineering. Sherman’s background includes SQL Server engineering at Microsoft and formative roles in experiment infrastructure and platform services, giving him strong experience in data migration, reliability and scalability. Based in Seattle, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with technical leadership on complex, safety-critical systems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who navigates both low-level language/runtime challenges and large-scale cloud integrations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer, 3.5, Bachelor's degree, Computer, 3.5 at University of Washington
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
shermpay/dotfiles
Jan 2015 - Mar 2025
Contributions:43 pushes, 10 branches in 10 years 3 months
shermpay/mlj
Sep 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 6 months
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