Jakob Schneider is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building and leading platform engineering for Android app distribution at Google, currently owning Play App Upload & Signing, Play Asset/Feature Delivery and related on-device AI initiatives. He progressed through successive engineering levels at Google after earlier internships at Amazon—where he devised a route-optimization algorithm projected to save millions—and paysafecard, demonstrating both applied research and production delivery chops. Jakob combines a strong academic background in software engineering and entrepreneurship from TU Wien and a BSc in Computer Science with hands-on expertise in app packaging, update delivery, and archiving at scale. Known for translating research ideas into operational systems, he brings a pragmatic, product-aware engineering style to complex, security- and reliability-sensitive platforms.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Augsburg
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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Jakob Schneider - Staff Software Engineer (L6) at Google