Yousef Alowayed
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYousef Alowayed is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building reliable, data-driven systems across startups and hyperscale cloud teams. He progressed from embedded and test automation work at Tesla and Apple to leading data and engineering efforts at Super, where his data architecture and analytics directly recovered millions in revenue and eliminated significant operational loss. At Google he focused on Container Analysis and open metadata standards, contributing protobuf-based SBOM/SPDX support to the well-known Grafeas artifact metadata project. He combines hands-on backend engineering (Go, protobufs, Postgres) with cross-functional leadership—reviewing schemas, defining data workflows, and streamlining review and QA processes. Known for pragmatic automation and measurable impact, he brings a physics and electrical engineering background plus an MS in CS to solve systems problems end-to-end.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English, Arabic
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
sbom10
spdx10
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
apidoc9
api9
docker6
container6
google-cloud-platform6
javascript6
arduino6
visual-studio6
documentation6
keyboard6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grafeas/grafeas
Aug 2021 - Mar 2022
Artifact Metadata API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Yousef primarily focused on implementing and modifying protobuf definitions for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) and SPDX-related features. These changes included adding new protobuf files, moving existing ones to different versions, and incorporating SBOM details into existing structures. The user also made updates to integrate the SBOM and SPDX proto definitions within the grafeas API's data structures, which involved modifying the main protobuf definitions to include the new schemas. These updates were crucial for the project's ability to handle and represent SBOM data.
metadata-apiapiartifactmetadata
alowayed/Personal-site
Jul 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
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