Summary
Julia Proskurnia is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google, leading Cloud Speech quality and on-device language model initiatives, including Assistant Voice Typing and Dictation Formatting. Over a decade she has progressed from hands-on software development to guiding large-scale ML and distributed systems, most recently overseeing Cloud Speech Quality, Cloud Custom Speech Models, and on-device deployments. Her research background spans distributed information systems and data mining, culminating in a PhD from EPFL, with master’s studies in distributed computing at KTH and UPC. Earlier in her career she contributed to Gmail SmartCompose personalization and mobile dictation features, and gained hands-on experience with low-latency distributed data stores and streaming systems during NASDAQ OMX and EPFL projects. Based in Uitikon, Switzerland, she combines academic rigor with practical engineering to deliver scalable, low-latency speech and language technologies.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Distributed Computing, Master's degree, Distributed Computing at Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya
Master's degree, Distributed Computing, Master's degree, Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, French, Russian, German, Ukrainian