Rod Sheeter

About Rod Sheeter

I am a developer at Google. I have worked with software for over ten years. I have…

Experience

1. Senior Staff Software Engineer

   Google

   Apr 2022 — Present

   TLM for Google Fonts, aiming to make use of type, icons, and emoji easy across all the world\'s languages. My personal focus is modernizing the open source text stack (https://github.com/googlefonts/oxidize) and related tools used across Google. I sponsor and contribute to Google\'s investment in relevant standards. Specifically, reinventing network font delivery and improving the font format used by all major platforms (https://github.com/harfbuzz/boring-expansion-spec, https://developer.chrome.com/blog/colrv1-fonts/).

Education

• British Columbia Institute of Technology

  Diploma of Technology, Computer Systems Technology, Data Communications & Networking

  2000 — 2002

• British Columbia Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Wireless and Mobile Applications

  2005 — 2012

Skills

• Jquery
• Continuous Integration
• Agile Project Management
• Ruby on Rails
• Xslt
• Enterprise Software
• Asp
• Javascript
• Concurrent Programming
• Rest
• Shell Scripting
• Software Engineering
• Soap
• Hibernate
• Scrum
• Requirements Analysis
• Spring
• Problem Solving
• Software Development
• Visual Basic
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Java
• .net
• Jsp
• Xml
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Architectures
• Saas
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Web Applications
• Database Design
• Asp.net
• Object Oriented Design
• Software Design
• Enterprise Architecture
• Ajax
• Scalability
• Web Services
• Oop