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Bret McGowen

Software Engineer
Country or state 
United States (New York)
Available to 
North America,
Europe
City 
New York City
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes
Timezone 
America/New_York

Personal Details

Bio

Bret McGowen is a software engineer and former Developer Advocate on the Google Cloud team for serverless products like Cloud Run, Google Cloud Functions, App Engine, Firebase, machine learning APIs, and more. Prior to Google, Bret worked as a software engineer at Rackspace. He's often on the running trail, volleyball court or kickball field.

Bret lives in New York City and earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Texas A&M University.

Reach Bret McGowen on Twitter at @bretmcg.

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Software Engineer

Degrees (1)
Computer Science
Texas A&M University
1999 to 2004
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Bret speaking at a Google Cloud event
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Online Payments with Stripe+Rails - Bret McGowen (2013)
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IT consulting and services
Google Cloud Serverless FireBase Google App Engine Google Cloud Run Cloud Run Google Cloud Functions
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Why choose me? 

I've given 80+ technical talks across 5 continents to audiences of 25 to 2,500.

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