Owen Rodley
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolOwen Rodley is a Senior Software Engineer in Sydney with 13 years of experience building high-performance systems and developer tools, currently focused on real-time sensor fusion for Google Maps. He brings deep interest and hands-on expertise in programming languages, compilers, microarchitecture and performance, evidenced by contributions to a Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler where he implemented core language constructs and fixed subtle conditional and list-manipulation bugs. Owen has a track record across Maps, Chrome developer infra, CI, and package deployment at Google, combining low-level systems thinking with pragmatic product focus to deliver software that meets user needs across multiple axes. He cares about the craft of engineering — not just elegant code but measurable behavior in production — and has a background building custom code indexers and interop layers that bridge languages and platforms.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences Mathematics and Computer Science at The University of Waikato
Github Skills (7)
macros10
compiler10
javascript10
compiler-compiler10
manipulate10
lisp10
testing10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
jscl-project/jscl
Apr 2013 - Jan 2016
A Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler bootstrapped from Common Lisp
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:73 commits, 2 PRs, 4 comments in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Lisp-to-JavaScript compiler, JSCL. They implemented tests for iteration constructs (DOTIMES, DOLIST, DO) and conditional forms (COND, AND, OR). Additionally, the user fixed bugs related to conditional forms and added support for list manipulation functions like COPY-TREE, SUBST, and POP. The user's work focused on improving the compiler's functionality and ensuring the correctness of its core language features.
common-lispcompilerjavascriptlispjscl
orodley/avlink
Mar 2025 - Apr 2026
A script for adding hyperlinks to a "Halls of Arden Vul" PDF
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 1 PR in 1 year
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