Andy Staudacher
Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead, Google Cloud AI, Applied AI
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Staudacher is a Staff Software Engineer and tech lead with 17 years of experience building global-scale systems at Google, currently leading GenAI prototyping for Google Cloud AI. He pioneered Knowledge Graph internationalization—architecting entity-linking and name-localization systems that scaled to 70+ languages and powered billions of Knowledge Panels—and later led large Trust & Safety initiatives that raised candidate recall for elections from 10% to 98%. His background blends deep i18n expertise (12+ years), NLP and hands-on ML, API and library stewardship, and nine years of engineering management, including rescuing and modernizing libphonenumber as an industry standard. He’s equally comfortable shipping code (full-stack open-source contributions to projects like Gallery3 and libphonenumber) and shaping long-term technical strategy across 200-engineer programs. Based in Zurich, he pairs analytical rigor with cross-functional influence and a track record of turning high-risk, high-impact problems into production safeguards and scalable platforms. An interesting through-line: many of his highest-impact solutions are simple serving-time libraries or metadata reforms that unlocked disproportionate product reach and reliability.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Electrical Engineering and IT, MSc, Electrical Engineering and IT at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichMNG Rämibühl
Github Skills (33)
static-code-analysis10
debug10
number-formatting10
i18n-node10
number-format10
command-line-interface10
findbugs10
java10
javas10
php10
code-analysis10
bug-reporting10
command-line10
i18n-js10
i18next10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
google/libphonenumber
Jan 2015 - Mar 2018
Google's common Java, C++ and JavaScript library for parsing, formatting, and validating international phone numbers.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits, 82 PRs, 83 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andy primarily contributed to bug fixes and metadata updates within the Google libphonenumber repository. Their work involved correcting an issue in the AsYouTypeFormatter, which included changes to Java, C++, and JavaScript implementations to maintain consistency. Additionally, the user updated metadata for releases, demonstrating their role in maintaining the data integrity of the phone number parsing and formatting library. These updates also included some changes to parsing logic.
javascript-libraryphone-numberphoneinternational-phoneunderscore
gallery/gallery3
Nov 2008 - Apr 2010
The simplest, most intuitive way to host your photos on your website.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:301 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Andy's commits primarily focused on improving the Gallery3 web application. Their contributions included fixing configuration paths for Windows environments, correcting header URLs to avoid nesting issues, and integrating a translation class for internationalization (i18n). They also made adjustments to the comment and user modules and addressed various XSS vulnerabilities by sanitizing input and ensuring safe HTML generation, indicating a focus on both frontend and backend development.
hostphoto-gallerysimplestintuitivegallery
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