Hedges
Senior Site Reliability Engineer L5 (Waze Security) at Google
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolHedges is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of low-level infrastructure expertise at Google, now focused on security for Waze. He has owned and modernized critical services like the Machine Database and Midas package manager, automating releases, rollbacks, and large-scale configuration migrations that Google depended on. Recent work includes standardizing group systems via textproto-to-GCL tooling, automating Distroless Docker image releases, and building a hardened Distroless Nginx image with BoringSSL and Brotli. A hands-on tinkerer who started in datacenter ops, he combines deep operational experience (from drive swaps to POP deployments) with software-first solutions and mentoring across teams. He also contributes to embedded/IoT open source—adding Banana Pi M5 support to Adafruit Blinka—demonstrating a knack for hardware-adjacent software. Known for finding and fixing subtle race conditions and for scaling systems thoughtfully, he blends pragmatic engineering with security-minded rigor.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Information System Security, Associate's Degree, Information System Security at Fayetteville Technical Community CollegeBachelor's Degree (Incomplete), Industrial Technology, Bachelor's Degree (Incomplete), Industrial Technology at East Carolina University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
py10
python10
abstraction-layer10
sys10
adafruit-circuit-python10
embedded10
hal10
bsp9
micropython8
soc8
iot7
byte6
go6
plotly-python6
plotly6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
adafruit/Adafruit_Blinka
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Add CircuitPython hardware API and libraries to MicroPython & CPython devices
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Hedges's contributions primarily focused on adding support for the Banana Pi M5 to the `adafruit_blinka` library, which provides CircuitPython hardware APIs. They added board-specific pin definitions and made necessary adjustments to the core board initialization to accommodate the new hardware. The user also addressed platform-specific issues like non-existent I2C events, along with code formatting and improving code quality by fixing typing and pylint issues.
cpythonhardwaremicropython
djhedges/exit_speed
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
Contributions:5 reviews, 636 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years
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