Kevin Cooney
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Cooney is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable, large-scale backend systems and data pipelines across Google, Verily, Arta Finance, eBay and more. He has led cross-functional engineering teams to design first-of-kind products like Google’s Cloud Capacity Planner and has scaled systems that process terabytes daily for automated trading managing $100M+ in customer assets. Kevin blends deep systems and QA expertise—evidenced by contributions to the widely used JUnit 4 project around exception handling and thread-safe test rules—with practical product delivery in HIPAA-compliant clinical platforms and high-throughput analytics. Based in San Jose, he mentors robotics students and engineers alike, accelerating launches and reducing time-to-market for complex projects. Known for turning messy operational requirements into auditable, automated services, he pairs hands-on coding with thoughtful technical leadership.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Math/Computer Science, B.S. Math/Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (7)
javas10
junit10
exception-handling10
java10
testing10
software-design8
refactoring7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
junit-team/junit4
Nov 2010 - Jan 2023
A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java — :warning: maintenance mode
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Backend Developer & QA EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 193 commits, 209 PRs in 12 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Kevin contributed to the JUnit 4 testing framework by creating and modifying exception handling features, specifically related to `MultipleFailureException`. They also fixed typos in comments, which improved code readability. Additionally, the user worked on making the `TestRule` abstract class, modifying existing tests, and implemented optimizations, such as improving error messages and providing thread-safe implementations.
javamaintenance-modetesting
Prospect-Robotics/lib2813
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
Libraries containing frequently-reused code extracted from past robot code
Contributions:1 release, 58 reviews, 110 PRs in 2 years 4 months
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