Taymon Beal
Software Engineer at Google
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolTaymon Beal is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently working on Google Ad Manager out of Cambridge, MA. He brings full‑stack expertise with a strong front‑end focus—contributing to high‑profile open source projects like Google Closure Library, Closure Compiler, and the AMP HTML framework to improve maintainability, ad rendering, and developer tooling. His work spans security-sensitive backend fixes in the Tink crypto library to practical developer ergonomics such as lint rules and autofixers, showing a blend of careful correctness and productivity improvements. At Google since 2016, he pairs production-scale product experience with a history of education and mentoring from his time teaching computer science at WPI. Colleagues would note his attention to subtle robustness issues (e.g., sanitization and edge-case validation) that often prevent real-world failures.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Conant High School
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Github Skills (43)
closure10
javascript10
python10
ampl10
testing10
it-security10
linux10
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google-closure-library10
google-amp10
java10
subprocess10
security10
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cryptography10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tink-crypto/tink
Dec 2019 - May 2022
Tink is a multi-language, cross-platform, open source library that provides cryptographic APIs that are secure, easy to use correctly, and hard(er) to misuse.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:1 review, 60 commits, 2 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Taymon primarily contributed to improving the security and correctness of the Tink crypto library. Their work involved fixing vulnerabilities related to empty input values in JavaScript crypto functions, specifically in the validation of public keys. The user also removed runtime type-checking tests in JavaScript to facilitate migration to TypeScript, indicating a focus on improving code quality and maintainability within the project. They widened the visibility of some JavaScript APIs for testing purposes.
securecryptographycppcross-languagemulti-language
ampproject/amphtml
Aug 2016 - Jan 2019
The AMP web component framework.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:36 commits, 38 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Taymon primarily contributed to the AMP HTML framework by implementing and improving features related to advertising and component functionality. Their work included allowing A4A ads to fall back to iframes, adding attributes to A4A iframes, and explicitly loading amp-ad tags in example files. They also fixed bugs related to DoubleClick and AdSense integrations, with a focus on ad rendering and display. The user’s contributions included changes to JavaScript files, and test cases, indicating front-end development skills within the AMP ecosystem.
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