Christian Sonntag
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolChristian Sonntag is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google with over 18 years of experience building large-scale, user-facing systems and infrastructure. He currently leads engineering for Food and Dining experiences on Google.com and Maps, with a track record of shipping food ordering and discovery features at global scale. Previously he led networking optimization for Project Fi and was a technical lead on the Play store, Android services, and the security-sensitive Google Health backend. His background includes scaling bioinformatics platforms and re-architecting high-performance J2EE systems early in his career, demonstrating both domain breadth and deep systems expertise. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on engineering with cross-team coordination to deliver resilient, high-availability services. A practical problem-solver, he often operates at the intersection of product, security, and scalable backend architecture.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Heidelberg University
Stackoverflow
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1kreached
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Github Skills (15)
data-transfer10
streaming9
linux9
windows8
gossip8
fluid6
docker6
typo36
ddev6
robot4
roberta2
ide2
browser1
graphical-programming1
operating-system1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
chrschng/cdc-file-transfer
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
google/cdc-file-transfer
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Tools for synching and streaming files from Windows to Linux
Contributions:115 reviews, 2 commits, 2 PRs in 1 month
windowslinuxstreamingdata-transfergossip
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