Anton Kast
Staff Software Engineer - Google Research
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnton Kast is a Staff Software Engineer at Google Research with 10+ years of deep systems and research experience, blending production-grade engineering with scientific inquiry. He has led work across video rendering, accessibility (Euphonia, Project Relate), and large-scale scientific projects like mapping the ionosphere using millions of phones and curating the Open Reaction Database. His background ranges from high-performance computing and TCP-level network devices to founding roles in startups and product architecture at TiVo and Digg, giving him rare fluency from low-level performance optimization to product strategy. Based in San Francisco, he pairs a Ph.D. in Physics from UC Berkeley with a pragmatic focus on reliability and latency in challenging environments, and he often gravitates toward projects that make research reproducible and widely usable. An inquisitive and hands-on leader, he combines curiosity with a track record of shipping impactful systems that bridge research and real-world users.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Physics, Ph.D., Physics at University of California, BerkeleyA.B., Physics, A.B., Physics at University of Chicago
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
protocol-buffers9
python9
serialization9
rpc9
protobuf9
science9
database8
protoc8
computer-algebra-system8
computer-algebra8
marshalling8
math7
command-line-tool6
fullscreen6
flash6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
antonkast-google/ord-schema
May 2020 - Oct 2020
Schema for the Open Reaction Database
Contributions:74 pushes, 62 branches in 4 months
databasereaction
antonkast-google/ord-editor
Oct 2020 - May 2021
A web app for browsing, modifying, and creating submissions to the Open Reaction Database
Contributions:25 pushes, 10 branches in 7 months
reactsubmissionsreactionbrowsingdatabase
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