Florian Niemann
Staff Software Engineer at YouTube
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolFlorian Niemann is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 12 years of experience building large-scale web and backend systems across Google and YouTube. Rising through engineering roles since 2006, he brings deep institutional knowledge of Google’s product and infrastructure stack and now shapes platform and product engineering at YouTube. Florian combines front-end roots and graphic design experience with long-term backend systems work, giving him a rare full-stack perspective on user-facing features and scalable services. He is experienced in mentoring and technical leadership through multiple promotions, consistently delivering reliable systems at scale. Fluent in navigating complex legacy codebases and product-driven engineering, he’s the kind of engineer who pairs pragmatic execution with a designer’s attention to user detail.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science, Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science at Hochschule Osnabrück
Github Skills (15)
google10
android9
specification9
kotlin9
rust9
dart-language8
sdk8
dart6
flutter6
programming-language5
formatter4
linter3
lang1
dart2js1
angular1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/comprehensive-rust
Jun 2023 - Jun 2023
This is the Rust course used by the Android team at Google. It provides you the material to quickly teach Rust.
Contributions:2 reviews in 1 day
android-teamrust-courserustgoogle-itandroid
dart-lang/language
Jan 2019 - May 2019
Design of the Dart language
Contributions:1 comment, 1 issue in 3 months
language-changesdart-languagespecificationdartflutter
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