# David Galles

> Staff Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidgalles

I am a Staff Engineer at Google working on preventing denial of service attacks.  Previously   I was a Computer Science professor at the University of San Francisco.  My largest impact, however, may be my Data Structure Visualizations (see link below) which show up #1 and #2 on most search engines.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Google
Jan 2017 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Graduate Director, Computer Science Department @ University of San Francisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Primary responsibilities:
Graduate admissions, graduate advising, overseeing development and implementation of bridge program

We are adding, in Fall 2017, a 3 year bridge program, which allows potential students without an undergraduate degree in computer science to obtain a masters degree in computer science.  The first year, students will take an accelerated sequence of courses that will prepare them for our standard 2 year masters program.

### Associate Professor Of Computer Science @ University of San Francisco
Jan 1997 – Jan 2017
Courses Taught
 
CS 107 Robots, Computing, and the Web	
CS 110 Introduction to Computer Science I
CS 112 Introduction to Computer Science II
CS 245 Data Structures and Algorithms
CS 345 Programming Language Paradigms
CS 411 Automata Theory
CS 414 Compilers
CS 421 Game Engineering 2D
CS 422 Game Engineering 3D
CS 461 Senior Team Project
CS 606 Software Engineering 
CS 686 Artificial Intelligence 
CS 662 Artificial Intelligence Programming
CS 673 Graduate Algorithms 
CS 675 Theory of Computation

### Software Engineer @ Industrial Light & Magic
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013
Worked summers doing development on the Zeno toolchain.

### Intern Wrangler @ LucasArts
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008
Created the curriculum for the internship program for the Jedi Academy for game engineers, and taught the first class.  Mentored interns as they did gameplay engineering for the Force Unleashed. 

Should have held out for an official job title as "Jedi Master".

### Assocate Engineer @ LucasArts
Jan 2006 – Jan 2007
Gameplay Engineering and Tools Development for The Force Unleashed and The Force Unleashed 2


## Education
### PhD in Computer Science
UCLA

### BS in Computer Science
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/davidgalles
- Portfolio: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/galles

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Last updated: 2026-04-12