Garrett Burroughs
Software Engineer at Google
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolGarrett Burroughs is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience and a 3.98 CS degree from the University of Virginia, currently building scalable developer tools at Google. He has shipped backend and frontend systems across startups and large companies—implementing AWS Lambda APIs, migrating monorepos with Turborepo, and creating Next.js UIs—while previously improving Firebase emulators to streamline local development. Garrett pairs deep practical knowledge of distributed and embedded systems (from delay-tolerant mobile networks and robot control frameworks) with a track record of mentoring and teaching, having instructed dozens of students and led robotics programming teams. Comfortable across cloud services, mobile, and full-stack web, he focuses on developer experience and pragmatic design choices that accelerate team productivity.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Montclair High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.98 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.98 GPA at University of Virginia
Spanish
Github Skills (25)
firebase-authentication10
firebase-admin10
firebase-db10
command-line-tool10
firebase-database10
firebase-cloud-messaging10
firebase10
keyboard-shortcuts9
robotframework9
nodejs9
realtime-database9
minecraft8
robotics7
webconsole7
ide7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
GarrettBurroughs/.dotfiles
Nov 2022 - Mar 2026
Contributions:1 PR, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
MontclairRobotics/Alloy
Dec 2017 - Nov 2019
An FTC robot framework designed for both experienced, and inexperienced coders to be able to code highly functional and reliable robots
Contributions:201 commits, 27 PRs, 126 pushes in 1 year 11 months
robotframeworkftcframeworkrobot-framework
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