Goran Žužić
Senior Research Scientist at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGoran Žužić is a Senior Research Scientist at Google based in Zurich with 14 years of experience bridging deep academic research and impactful industry R&D. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon and completed a postdoc at ETH Zürich, focusing on systems and networking problems that scale to real-world infrastructures. His career includes research internships at Google, Twitter, VMware and early software engineering at Facebook, reflecting a pattern of translating cutting-edge ideas into production-relevant solutions. Goran combines rigorous theoretical foundations with hands-on systems implementation, frequently collaborating across academia and industry to prototype and evaluate novel approaches. He is known for tackling hard distributed-systems and networked-systems challenges—often uncovering practical performance insights that aren’t obvious from theory alone. Based in Zurich, he blends global research exposure with a pragmatic engineering mindset that accelerates adoption of new techniques.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of science, Computer Science, Bachelor of science, Computer Science at University of Zagreb / Sveučilište u ZagrebuMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Zagreb/Sveuciliste u ZagrebuDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHighschool diploma, Highschool diploma at V. gimnazija, Zagreb, Croatia
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Zuza/zuza.github.io
Dec 2019 - Feb 2023
Contributions:51 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
Zuza/tutorials
Sep 2011 - Jun 2012
Contributions:10 commits in 9 months
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