David Nilsson
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Nilsson is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 14 years of experience building low-latency, high-availability distributed systems and embedded software. At Google since 2016 he focuses on engineering resource efficiency and applying AI to improve Workspace, bringing both architectural leadership and hands-on implementation. Earlier roles at Microsoft/Skype and Swedish startups gave him deep C#/C++, C, and embedded Linux experience, plus practical machine learning work on anomaly detection for solar panels. He combines systems-level rigor with a penchant for squeezing more efficiency from infrastructure, and his background shows a consistent thread of turning research prototypes into production-ready services.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc and almost completed MSc, Computer Science, BSc and almost completed MSc, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyOscarsgymnasiet
English, Swedish
Github Skills (9)
cloud-haskell5
api4
spotify4
core-library3
haskell3
servant3
distributed-systems2
erlang1
umbrella1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
davnils/kool
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
davnils/thesis
Jan 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:130 commits, 1 push in 1 year 7 months
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