Elwin Stephan
Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolElwin Stephan is a software engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building scalable, reliable systems across cloud, networking and build tooling. He has driven measurable platform improvements—most notably co-leading a multi- to mono-repo Bazel migration that cut CI build/test/release times by 50x—and now works at Google after production roles at Nexxiot and Open Systems. His background spans data-heavy Kotlin services on Kubernetes/AWS, Golang-based search and Kafka tooling, and frontend/backend web stacks, giving him full-stack fluency with a systems-first mindset. His master’s work at ETH Zurich focused on efficient scale-out execution for distributed serverless applications, reflecting deep interest in distributed computing and performance engineering. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and metric-driven, blending research-grade thinking with production engineering rigor. As a former trumpet player for the Swiss Armed Forces, he also brings discipline and a taste for high-stakes performance to engineering teams.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Economics, High School Diploma Economics at Kantonsschule EngeMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Github Skills (78)
json-data10
svm10
avro10
jar10
linux10
csv10
json10
schemaless10
eloquent10
data-format10
nested10
jsoniq10
laravel9
dataframes9
yaml9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
elwin/toggler
May 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 releases, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
elwin/mensabot
Feb 2019 - Aug 2021
This Telegram bot allows you to retrieve the daily menu of one of the ETH cafeterias. Sometimes it takes a couple of seconds until it responds, in that case the server needs to wake up first.
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
telegram-botcoupletakeswakewake-up
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