Carlos Knippschild
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarlos Knippschild is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience and nearly a decade at Google, where he focuses on making Chrome resilient on unreliable networks and low-end devices. Based in Seattle, he brings full-stack expertise to large-scale open-source projects like Chromium, contributing API enhancements, PDF data fetching, test client improvements, and documentation. His background spans systems, games, and research—from C++ and Python game engines and MMO backend work to optimization and combinatorial algorithms in academic-industrial R&D. He has led teams and introduced Scrum practices early in his career, blending hands-on implementation with coordination and product-minded tradeoffs. Carlos combines deep performance and networking knowledge with practical experience shipping across client and server stacks, and his long tenure at Google reflects sustained impact on widely used consumer software. An eye for tooling and test improvements often surfaces in his contributions, helping hard-to-reproduce issues become more manageable for teams and users.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Technician, Mechanics, Technician, Mechanics at Escola Técnica TupyElectrical Engineering and Systems, Electrical Engineering and Systems at Institut national polytechnique de GrenobleMBA, Project Management, MBA, Project Management at FGV - Fundação Getulio VargasBSc., Control and Automation Engineering, BSc., Control and Automation Engineering at Universidade Federal de Santa CatarinaScrum Master Certification, Scrum Master Certification at SPRiNT-iT
English, French, Portuguese, Spanish
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Github Skills (17)
javascript10
apidoc10
typescript10
chromium10
webui10
api10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
html9
testing8
language-features6
namedtuple6
ide6
python6
java6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
chromium/chromium
Oct 2019 - Dec 2022
The official GitHub mirror of the Chromium source
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Carlos primarily focused on enhancing the Glic API within the Chromium project. Their contributions included implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving the API documentation. They worked on features such as PDF data fetching and incorporated additional options for page context retrieval. Moreover, the user made several improvements and updates to the test web client, including handling permissions and UI updates.
chromiumgithub-mirrorchrome
chuim/msm-tmux
Feb 2015 - Jul 2023
A fork of MSM to add tmux support (in place of screen)
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 6 months
placemultiplexertmuxin-placesketchup
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