Alan Jones

Established and led Loon’s embedded platform team, building a cohesive platform strategy that utilizes the best of Alphabet’s software development capabilities to ensure high developer velocity, consistent and informative testing, and high-quality technical outcomes.

Created Loon’s cybersecurity and privacy team, earning C-Level buy-in to address a business need, building out core processes that aligned with Alphabet’s high security standards, performing detailed security assessments for Loon products, and successfully avoiding any major security incidents.

Spearheaded groundbreaking C++ portability efforts that accelerated embedded software development across Google by allowing embedded teams to effortlessly share Google tools, infrastructure, and code.

Carefully modified Google’s production code base to enable developers to utilize major portions of Google’s historically server-centric software infrastructure on Embedded Linux (ChromeOS), iOS, OSX, and Android, making hundreds of foundational data center libraries portable for the first time.

Pioneered framework for running embedded unit tests in the data center, reducing test times from five minutes to less than five seconds and facilitating tens of millions of daily unit tests across Google.

Developed LTE EPC components to run on Google's global Edge network deployments.

Promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff within four years, the youngest in the division.

Made significant architectural and >200k lines of direct code contributions, including protocol stack development from Layer 1 to Layer 7 of the stack, custom network protocols (TCP/UDP/IP), user interface, developer tools, framework, DSP implementation, as well as system hardware interfaces

Architected and scaled core reusable software development infrastructure that was used across the division’s entire cellular product line, providing a standardized framework that improved consistency, developer productivity, efficiency, and portability within a highly matrixed organization

Leveraged deep understanding of company systems and infrastructure to carefully review and enhance the work of 45+ software developers

Compiled and presented 25+ hours of custom technical training for software engineers, covering topics including C++ language, internal infrastructure, JavaScript language, and AngularJS GUI

Achieved a combined BS and MS in CS in 4 years with a 4.0 GPA in-major.