Summary
David Stewart is a Staff Software Engineer with nearly three decades of hands-on experience and nine years focused in senior roles at Google, where he currently leads technical teams on Google Maps. He specializes in mobile, mapping, and location-aware systems, spanning full-stack work from large-scale data processing to performant client experiences on Android and iOS. Comfortable across C/C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, PHP and platform-specific toolchains, he’s known as a get-things-done technical lead who drives both architecture and delivery. His background includes influential roles at Microsoft shaping mobile UX and virtual earth mapping, and earlier product and test engineering that reflect deep system-level expertise. Colleagues depend on him for performance-first solutions and pragmatic cross-team coordination that turn complex geo and mobile problems into polished user features. An unusual strength is his journalism-trained communication, which helps him translate technical tradeoffs into clear product decisions.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
University of Kansas