Spencerย Gordon
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSpencer Gordon is a research-driven software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and machine-learning applications, currently on the software engineering team at Google after leading research engineering at a blockchain startup. He specializes in turning theoretical ideas from statistical learning and causal inference into production-grade code, notably cutting blockchain update latency from 45s to 1s and enabling millions of secure state updates monthly through configurable consensus mechanisms. Comfortable across Python, Go, Solidity, Haskell, and TypeScript, he pairs hands-on systems workโcontainerized CI/CD, FastAPI/Redis caching, and Solidity code generationโwith a strong record in ML engineering using PyTorch and NumPy. Spencer also mentors junior engineers and bridges research and product teams, and his academic background (PhD work at Caltech) underpins a rare combination of deep theory and pragmatic optimization.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Brown UniversityCalifornia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (7)
robot6
sdk5
robotics5
graph5
graph-algorithms5
javascript4
rpc3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sgord512/id_algo
Jun 2020 - Aug 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
sgord512/GraphsAlgorithms
Feb 2012 - Jun 2013
Javascript implementation of a bunch of different graph algorithms
Contributions:72 commits in 1 year 3 months
javascriptgraphgraph-algorithms
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