Brian Madden is a systems-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience designing and optimizing storage, kernel development, and distributed systems. Based in California, he currently contributes as a Software Engineer at Google and as a Senior Software Engineer at Looker, bringing hands-on expertise across data-store architectures to large-scale systems. He specializes in storage systems, kernel development, embedded systems, and security, and adopts a holistic approach to problem solving to prevent future issues. At Formation Data Systems he led tiering management and garbage collection for a distributed data store, and worked on data-path tuning, migrations, and QoS, alongside Python tooling for testing and automation. He has founded and managed XOmB, reflecting entrepreneurial drive and technical leadership. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz and a BS from the University of Pittsburgh, grounding his production experience with strong academic training.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh
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