Stephen Holiday
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolStephen Holiday is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, search infrastructure, and performance-optimized services. At Google he has driven Spanner core infrastructure work and previously reduced server costs and user latency in search through careful experimentation and performance analysis. He combines deep C++ systems experience from early image- and video-search projects with modern distributed design for low-latency, cost-efficient services. A Waterloo computer engineering graduate on the Dean's Honours List, he has a track record of turning research-grade systems into production infrastructure and a knack for squeezing measurable savings out of complex platforms.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Gordon Graydon Memorial Secondary SchoolBASc., Computer Engineering, With Distinction and Dean's Honours List, BASc., Computer Engineering, With Distinction and Dean's Honours List at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (32)
post9
react9
bandwidth7
data-transfer6
build-process6
mongodb6
php6
catch-all6
python6
hbase6
cassandra6
nosql6
compress6
hyphenation5
lms5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sholiday/tinycast
Apr 2021 - Jan 2022
Automatically compress podcasts to tiny file sizes for bandwidth constrained devices like cellular.
Contributions:26 commits, 3 PRs, 22 pushes in 9 months
5ghyphenationtinybandwidthcompress
sholiday/sholiday.github.com
Dec 2015 - Apr 2021
Contributions:13 pushes in 5 years 4 months
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