Summary
Edwin Fuquen is an engineering manager and tech lead with 12 years of experience designing and operating large-scale ingestion and integration systems, currently leading the Maps Overhead Ingest team at Google. He has a strong track record building resilient pipelines for imagery and sensor data (Street View and satellite/aerial) and previously redesigned Google’s primary integration testing framework into hosted microservices that improved developer productivity organization-wide. Comfortable in C++, Python, Scala, Go, and cloud-native tooling, Edwin couples hands-on technical depth with people leadership, managing teams of 5–9 engineers across high-stakes production systems. His background includes high-throughput media platforms (Grooveshark, Livestream) and ad-hoc startup infrastructure at SomeSpider, revealing an ability to scale both architecture and operations under tight timelines. Based in Denver, he focuses on practical innovations that make technology meaningfully easier to use for millions of customers.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical/Computer Engineering, Electrical/Computer Engineering at University of Florida