Shirdon Gorse
Software Engineer at Google
Urbana, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolShirdon Gorse is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable systems, currently contributing to Cloud Spanner at Google. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UIUC and has a background in computer engineering from the University of St. Thomas and the University of Minnesota. Prior roles at Uber, Microsoft, and UnitedHealth Group span payments, cross-platform app development, and infrastructure automation, reflecting a strong systems and backend focus. As a graduate research and teaching assistant at UIUC, he supported automated software engineering research and taught data structures, showing a mix of research rigor and instructional experience. He favors pragmatic automation that saves engineers time, evidenced by projects that streamlined infrastructure delivery and self-hosting workflows. Based in Urbana, Illinois, he combines production-grade cloud engineering with a habit of improving developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at University of MinnesotaUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of St. Thomas
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
queue5
music2
microservices2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sgorse/sgorse.github.io
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
sgorse/train-ticket
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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