Branden Archer
Software Engineering Manager, Android Security And Privacy at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolBranden Archer is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building robust, well-tested systems, currently focused on Android privacy at Google in Mountain View. He has deep firmware and embedded systems roots from leading platform and automation efforts at Lexmark, where he drove high test coverage, static analysis adoption, and cross-team integration that materially reduced risk. His background in research-grade embedded networking and real-time systems informs a methodical approach to complex, multi-subsystem problems and security-minded design. An active contributor to C unit-testing improvements, he brings practical QA and test-automation expertise to production engineering. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, clear technical documentation, and delivering defensible, well-instrumented solutions.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical Engineering, Master's degree Electrical Engineering at The University of AkronAsian Studies Program East Asian Studies, Asian Studies Program East Asian Studies at Kansai Gaidai University
English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
assertion10
unit-testing10
assert10
test-framework10
c1110
test-automation10
testing10
error-reporting9
memory-management7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
libcheck/check
Dec 2015 - Oct 2021
A unit testing framework for C
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 16 reviews, 340 commits in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Branden primarily contributed to improving the quality and reliability of the `libcheck/check` unit testing framework for C by adding new test cases and addressing issues related to existing tests. They added a test case to check for potential issues when the `%n` format specifier is used in assertions, addressing a previously identified bug. The user also added tests for the `check_list` module and addressed failures within existing test suites. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the test suite, such as removing redundant test additions, improving error reporting, and fixing memory leaks, resulting in more stable and reliable testing.
unit-testing-framework
brarcher/ffmpeg-android
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
FFmpeg for Android compiled with x264, libass, fontconfig, freetype, fribidi and lame (Supports Android 4.1+)
Contributions:1 release, 24 commits, 9 PRs in 6 months
androidffmpegfontconfigfreetypex264
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