Simon Gog
Principal Member Of Technical Staff at eBay
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Gog is a Principal Member of Technical Staff at eBay with 14 years of experience building data-intensive, cost-conscious search infrastructure for web-scale systems. He designs and implements high-performance information retrieval solutions for Cassini, applying expertise in compressed index structures and HPC to serve millions of users. His background blends academic rigor—postdoctoral research in algorithms and succinct data structures—with pragmatic production delivery across progressive engineering roles at eBay. An active contributor to sdsl-lite, he works on core data structure implementations and tests, signaling deep hands-on knowledge of succinct and compressed representations. Based in San Jose, he pairs technical leadership and mentoring with a focus on reducing cost-to-serve and improving developer culture.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat Informatik, Dr. rer. nat Informatik at Ulm University
German, English
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Github Skills (5)
data-structures10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
testing9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
simongog/sdsl-lite
Jul 2012 - Dec 2019
Succinct Data Structure Library 2.0
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1150 commits, 118 PRs in 7 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon addressed a bug in test file `WtIntTest.cpp` by adding `test` calls. The user also modified the file `examples/int-vector-buffer-iterator.cpp` by adding the methods that implement iterators. The commits show that the user is involved in the development of the core data structure and tests.
cppdata-structure-librarysuccinctjavadata-structures
simongog/sdsl
Feb 2012 - Sep 2013
Contributions:294 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
cppdata-structure-librarysuccinctjavadata-structures
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