Skyler Schneider
Software Engineer (Cloud Performance) at Google
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSkyler Schneider is a software engineer specializing in cloud performance who blends deep hardware understanding with practical software optimization, currently shaping benchmark and performance analysis at Google. With 11 years of experience across Microsoft, LGS Innovations, and Google, he builds tools and dashboards that drive product decisions and performance/price comparisons for cloud platforms. Trained in Electrical and Computer Engineering (BS, MEng) at Cornell, he moves fluidly between low-level embedded work (assembly, FPGAs, microcontrollers) and high-level systems programming (C/C++, Java, Python). He has improved runtime performance for mobile and desktop environments and contributed backend enhancements and logging/test improvements to the well-known PerfKit Benchmarker open-source project. Praised for clear technical writing, he regularly translates complex measurements into actionable reports for engineers and senior executives. Based in Redmond, he thrives on projects that reveal how user code maps to physical resources and on balancing tight constraints with product delivery.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell University
Github Skills (11)
testing10
logging10
python10
performance-monitor7
performance-measurement7
performance-monitoring7
performance-tuning7
git7
performance-analysis7
performance-analytics7
gcp5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/PerfKitBenchmarker
Mar 2015 - May 2016
PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) contains a set of benchmarks to measure and compare cloud offerings. The benchmarks use default settings to reflect what most users will see. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. Please make sure to read, understand and agree to the terms of the LICENSE and CONTRIBUTING files before proceeding.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:195 commits, 190 PRs, 202 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Skyler's contributions focused on enhancing the core functionality of the PerfKit Benchmarker (PKB) project. They added new logging features, including flags to customize output, and refactored existing code to improve logging capabilities and streamline the code base. The user also implemented tests and refactored existing code to support the implementation of these enhancements. These changes demonstrate the user's ability to improve the project's functionality.
license-2licensedbenchmarkingapache-license-2pkb
hicrazyboy/PerfKitBenchmarker
Oct 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:9 commits in 2 days
license-2licensedapache-license-2reflectapache
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