Alexander Taylor

A platform used by hundreds of other teams at Google that I worked on. It enabled engineers to compare—before and after making changes to their code—the behavior of their software at a high level as well as the downstream software that consumes its data.

Targeted Mailings helps their clients send advertisements to highly targeted prospective customers in their area. The web platform serves employees, subcontractors, clients, and clients' prospective customers. It includes a client portal that allows for customization of landing pages for customers, viewing billing statements, and viewing statistics about their service. In the admin portal, platform admins can manage clients and their assets as well as contractors (e.g., printers, list companies, or artists). The platform includes several tools for generating reports and automating processes.

Portals for subcontractors allow printers to see a calendar of what data needs to be printed and mailed—and when—and allows artists to view and upload artwork for their assigned clients.

The data uploading pipeline normalizes and filters data in various formats from other companies and triggers other workflows such as emailing clients and contractors or generating billing statements.

I designed and implemented a pipeline for benchmarking internal developer tools. My team needed to measure the execution latency of testing tools used by other teams over the long term in order to keep developer cycles quick. The pipeline aggregated and normalized timing data from various systems such as the job scheduler and logs generated by the tools, linked that data together, and stored pre-aggregated metrics for display purposes.

For example, our performance tracking graph dashboard: The pipeline was configurable to track various types of developer tools, handle new requirements for aggregations, and accept data from new underlying data sources and formats. The pipeline featured its own programming language to link data for a particular tool together even as its log output format changed over time.