Telephone: 415-335-9255
Email: shall07@gmail.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenhall
August 2007 - present
Technical Lead for Google Cloud Resource Settings
Launched the Resource Settings API to general availability, unblocking numerous use cases for customer-specified settings across Google Cloud Platform
Rewrote and modernized the team's entire management plane service to use current Google Java best practices
Technical Lead for Google Shopping Fulfillment - Delivery Promises
Established and led a cross-team collaboration to:
use and/or build common cross-team infrastructure
enforce consistent and safe production setups across the organization
define and implement useful org-wide best practices
Established and led a tiger team to improve production health, reduce latency, and avoid/mitigate several outages
Won three consecutive organization-wide awards for a multitude of contributions to engineering excellence, including postmortem analysis, incident management, and leading cross-team efforts to define and implement engineering best practices (see below)
Technical Lead for Google Authentication Libraries
Designed and implemented the multiple sign-in project for Google accounts, allowing multiple accounts to be used simultaneously within one browsing session, which led to a patent application (see below)
Designed and implemented Google's standard service-side authentication library, used by hundreds of teams at Google to integrate with the Google Accounts system
Consulted and worked with service teams across Google to help them integrate with the Google Accounts system
Implemented the ability to prevent access to personal Google accounts from corporate networks (for enterprise customers)
Worked on the Google-wide project to remove the division between enterprise Google accounts and regular Google accounts, bringing more consumer services (such as YouTube and Blogger) to enterprise accounts
Implemented an experiment framework to allow new features to be gradually rolled out to users in a strictly controlled fashion
Overall GPA: 4.0/4.0
Specialization in Software Theory
Relevant Coursework:
Programming Language Theory
Cryptography
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
Overall GPA: 4.8/5.0
Relevant Coursework:
Artificial Intelligence
Software Engineering
System Design
Algorithms
Computability
Digital Systems
Overall GPA: 4.8/5.0
Relevant Coursework:
Combinatorics
Differential Equations
Information Theory
Game Theory
Statistical Economics
Google Shopping Engineering Excellence Award - Organization-wide Engineering Best Practices (Fall 2019)
Google Shopping Transactions Engineering Excellence Award - Postmortems and Incident Response (Spring 2019)
Google Shopping Engineering Excellence Award - Monitoring and Alerting (Fall 2018)
Certificate of Excellence - Project Unify Google (May 2012)
Patent Application US20130262673 - "System and Method of Multiple Login Overlay from a Single Browser Interface" (filed April 2012)
Google Enterprise Team Leadership Award - Gmail Blocking Team (October 2011)
Google OC Award - Google Accounts Plus (December 2010)
Google OC Award - Google Dashboard + Safe Browsing (June 2010)
Software Design
Cross-team Collaboration
Mentorship
Postmortem Analysis
Incident Response
Tech Talks / Technical Deep Dives
Java
C++
Scheme
Algorithms
API Design
System Design
Artificial Intelligence
Programming Language Theory