Thomas Sepez
SWE at Google
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolThomas Sepez is a seasoned software engineer with 14+ years at Google focused on security-minded systems engineering. He brings decades of experience across major tech firms including Oracle and Yahoo!, combining low-level C/C++ expertise with practical secure-coding practices. At Google he has made notable open-source contributions to the Chromium project, removing unsafe C library calls and converting custom span types to std::span to reduce attack surface. Based in Redwood City, he blends deep legacy systems knowledge from aerospace and enterprise work with modern browser and build-system hygiene. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, safety-first fixes that prevent vulnerabilities rather than just patch them.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, eecs, Bachelor's degree, eecs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (12)
memory-management10
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
refactor10
security10
build-system8
python7
scripting7
pyscript7
python-scripts7
script7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas's commits focus on modifying the Chromium source code to address unsafe buffer usage in various files. They are primarily focused on removing unsafe c-library calls to reduce the potential attack surface and improve code security. The user's contributions involve identifying and implementing fixes for unsafe operations across multiple projects, including a significant undertaking to convert usages of crdtp::span<> to standard span<>. They also worked on a series of automated generation scripts and adjustments to build configurations.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
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