Don Schwarz
Principal Engineer at Google
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDon Schwarz is a Principal Engineer based in Chicago with 11 years of professional experience designing secure, high-performance distributed systems and optimizing cost and latency at scale. He brings deep domain expertise in cybersecurity and programming language integration, honed through senior technical roles at Google (including Search, Security & Privacy, and App Engine), Chronicle, and Amazon. Don combines hands-on architecture and engineering leadership—shaping large-scale services and mentoring teams—with a strong track record of shipping production-ready systems in cloud and security contexts. His background spans both finance and tech, having led engineering efforts at UBS early in his career, which contributes to a disciplined approach to reliability and risk management. Known for pragmatic tradeoffs between performance and cost, he excels at turning complex system requirements into maintainable, auditable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at DePaul UniversityGithub contributions (2)
schwardo/schoolbus
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 28 days
schwardo/laserbunnies
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 14 days
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