Søren Gjesse
Software Engineer at Google
Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolSøren Gjesse is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of professional experience and a long-standing tenure at Google since 2007. He brings deep back-end expertise across tooling, build systems, networking and code generation—contributing to high-profile open-source projects like Dart’s pub and http libraries, Flutter packages, Bazel, and protobuf.dart. His work spans improving tooling reliability and performance, build/desugaring integration for Android, and native extensions for macOS mDNS, reflecting a pragmatic focus on robustness, interoperability and developer experience. A former solution architect, he couples systems-level insight with hands-on fixes for flaky tests, XSS hardening and build automation, often working on the subtle edge cases that make large platforms dependable.
16 years of coding experience
Aarhus University
Github Skills (32)
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
protocol-buffers10
testing10
http10
build-system10
android-build10
java10
javas10
code-generation10
api10
dns10
network-protocol10
bazel10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
google/protobuf.dart
Aug 2013 - Aug 2015
Runtime library for Dart protobufs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 2 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Søren primarily worked on the `protobuf.dart` repository, contributing to the code generation process for Dart protobufs. Their work focused on enhancing the generated code, including adding options to customize field names and handling top-level enums correctly. The user also addressed review comments by making various improvements and bug fixes to ensure the generated code was correct.
protobufruntimedartprotobufsruntime-library
dart-lang/http
Nov 2012 - May 2013
A composable API for making HTTP requests in Dart.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 comment in 6 months
Contributions summary:Søren primarily contributed to the `dart-lang/http` repository by modifying existing tests and implementing changes related to error handling and Content-Length management. Their work included adding debug prints to diagnose flaky tests, fixing URI encoding/decoding issues, and updating tests to align with library changes. They also refactored Content-Length handling within the project's code.
apihttp-requestshttp-clientdartcomposable
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