Emil Arfvidsson
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolEmil Arfvidsson is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience, currently shaping the Android experience for Google Photos out of Mountain View. He combines deep mobile engineering expertise with an entrepreneurial background as co-founder of a mobile app company, giving him a strong product sensibility alongside systems-level thinking. Emil cut his teeth in algorithms during an internship at Bump Technologies and has steadily advanced to senior technical leadership within a large-scale consumer product team. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from Kungliga tekniska högskolan and brings rigorous academic foundations to practical, user-facing engineering. Known for shipping reliable, high-performance Android features at scale, he excels at bridging cross-functional product and engineering goals. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs hands-on coding with long-term architectural vision.
15 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyTeknikum
English, Swedish
Stackoverflow
60reputation
3kreached
2answers
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Github Skills (47)
kotlin10
smooth-scrolling10
caching10
image10
image-loading10
scrolling10
gif10
android-library10
android10
smooth10
disk-cache10
unit-testing7
espresso7
java7
plist6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kanelbulle/sokoban-solver
Sep 2011 - Oct 2011
Contributions:103 commits in 23 days
kanelbulle/cortado
Feb 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:254 commits in 3 months
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