Vince Harron
Engineering Manager, Google Silicon
Solana Beach, California, United States
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Top SchoolVince Harron is an experienced engineering leader with 11+ years of senior management at Google and over two decades building developer tools, game engines, and large-scale services. As Engineering Manager for Google Silicon he has led teams of 100+ across developer tools, compute infrastructure, and test engineering, and previously transformed the Android Emulator and added C++ edit/build/debug to Android Studio. He combines deep hands-on systems and debugging expertise—contributing to LLDB test automation and creating FlatBuffers—with a track record of acquisitions and global team building to raise ecosystem quality. His background in games and consoles (Sony, SOE) informed robust server architectures, automated testing, and crash-analysis systems that scaled to millions of devices. Based in Solana Beach, CA, he blends pragmatic engineering with strategic vision and an appetite for ambitious, platform-level problems. A not-obvious thread through his career is a focus on test reliability and tooling that turns fragile projects into maintainable, high-velocity teams.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (10)
python10
lldb10
test-automation10
testing10
debugging9
c-language8
cprogramming-language8
unit-testing7
debug6
build-automation5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
llvm-mirror/lldb
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
Project moved to: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:77 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vince primarily focused on enhancing and maintaining the automated test suite for the LLDB debugger. Their work involved modifying existing tests, adding new tests for specific functionalities (e.g., breakpoint handling, thread management, expression evaluation, and remote debugging), and addressing test flakiness across various platforms. The user also contributed to the test infrastructure by introducing features like test timeout mechanisms, session logging, and incorporating support for expected failures on specific compilers and operating system versions. Their contributions improved the reliability and coverage of the test suite, ensuring the debugger's functionality.
llvm
vharron/z5
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Lighweight C++ and Python interface for datasets in zarr and N5 format
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
pythonpython-interfacedatasetzarrdatasets
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