Sam Rawlins - Resume

Phone » (602) 348-2450

GitHub » github.com/srawlins

Email » sam.rawlins@gmail.com

LinkedIn » linkedin.com/in/sam-rawlins-a721ab79/

Web » srawlins.dev - live version of this resume with hyperlinks to open source work

2018 Nov - current

Senior Software Engineer

Google Inc

Wrote a web application which previews automated nullability changes being applied to Dart code; functions similar to an IDE
Implemented new code-generating API for Dart mockito package for compatibility with Dart's upcoming non-nullable type system
"20% contributor" to Dart static analysis team; work includes a "strict inference" mode, new static analysis checks, improved "unused" elements analysis
Joined the "readability approvers" team for the Dart language in December 2018, shaping the style and idioms used for all code written at Google; reviewed > 180 changes in 12 months
Recipient of the Dart organization and "Multiplatform" organization's Citizenship Award in Q1 2017, Q2 2019, Q3 2019, and Q4 2019

Aug 2016 - Nov 2018

Software Engineer

Google Inc

Led type system upgrade for all internal code, to prepare for Dart 2.0; ran a "fixit", engaging 40 engineers to prepare their code bases, changing types and other code in 1600 Dart files
Designed a siloed build system for projects that could not be upgraded to Dart 2.0; forked and programatically altered more than 2000 files to keep over 40 applications running indefinitely on Dart 1
Lead developer of the Dart mockito GitHub package; designed new architecture to handle new Dart type system
Lead developer of the Dart markdown package; significant PRs: Markdown extension support, extension sets, GitHub-Flavored Markdown tables, overhauling link reference definitions, overhauling emphasis and strong emphasis parsing, overhauling links
Heavy contributor to the Sass-linting Rubygem, scss-lint; after contributing new linting rules and many bug fixes, am the largest contributor behind the project owner, according to git stats

Feb 2013 - Aug 2016

Software Engineer in Test

Google Inc

Designed and implemented a web test runner for Dart, now used by hundreds of developers in Google; test runner builds and runs tests, manages browser windows, caching and selectively re-running tests on file writes
Designed and implemented a new Network Emulation feature inside Chromedriver, exposing features from Chrome's DevTools to WebDriver testing

Dec 2010 - Jan 2013

Principal Systems Analyst/Developer

University of Arizona

Implemented and customized a new financial system and research administration system
Understanding of Java web development, including Spring and Struts
Understanding of general (Java) development, using Ant, Maven, Eclipse, Subversion, and Jira
Develop tests, scripts, and tools in web-oriented languages (Ruby, JavaScript, CoffeeScript), implementing various tools (Selenium, Sinatra, Subversion, Git, Jira)

Oct 2006 - Dec 2010

System Test and Performance Engineer

IBM

Understanding of Windows and several Unix variants, software testing fundamentals, performance testing concepts and tools
Designed performance evaluation automation suite in Ruby
Develop tests, scripts, and tools in multiple languages including: C, Java, Perl, Ruby, Python, HTML/JavaScript/CSS

May 2008

Bachelor of Science - Mathematics and Computer Science

University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - 3.1 GPA

mastery

Software development - developer tools

mastery

Software development - build systems / large codebases

excellence

Software development - front end

mastery

Dart language

excellence

Java language

mastery

Ruby language

experienced

Bazel build system

mastery

Python language

experienced

AngularDart / Angular

excellence

Sass language

experienced

node.js

excellence

JavaScript language

experienced

git

excellence

HTML/CSS languages

experienced

Unix shell

mastery

Team communication - communicating with teammates both local and remote does not just mean email; I work efficiently to tighten communication loops within and across teams.

mastery

Code review - working together on teams requires competent and compassionate code reviews; I deliver thorough and pragmatic code reviews.

mastery

Test culture - from working for years as a Software Engineer in Test, I promote a culture of good testing practices, from unit testing to end-to-end testing, from testing one thing at a time, to testing public API, checking in regression tests for bug escapes to failing tests for open bugs, earning good test coverage (but not necessarily perfect), and more.

excellence

Agile methodologies - I have worked on Agile teams with scrum masters, Kanban boards, true stand-ups, and safe, effective retrospectives; I believe in the effectiveness of choosing work cycle methods per-team, per-project that best help the team get things done.