Jan Fornoff
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJan Fornoff is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and optimizing server-side traffic at Google. He combines deep expertise in RPC client frameworks, resource-efficient architectures, and site reliability practices from his YouTube SRE days to improve latency and durable data-center efficiency. Prior roles include bootstrapping an org-wide efficiency effort that delivered multi-million-dollar resource and latency savings, and hands-on backend work with Elixir, CQRS/event sourcing, and Kubernetes in production. Jan is a functional programming enthusiast who pairs pragmatic system-level performance tuning with principled design. He mentors engineers and leads cross-team technical strategy while keeping a developer-first focus on measurable SLIs/SLOs. Outside of obvious cloud-scale work, he brings a background in full-stack and automation practices dating back to his early engineering roles, giving him a breadth of operational empathy.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
German, English
Stackoverflow
1,368reputation
46kreached
71answers
2questions
Github Skills (97)
ruby10
html10
elixir10
rails10
plugin10
language-server10
scalable9
language-server-protocol9
mvc9
rancher9
vim9
ruby-on-rails9
activerecord9
pool9
plug9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jfornoff/dotfiles
Oct 2015 - May 2026
Contributions:6 PRs, 169 pushes, 12 branches in 10 years 9 months
jfornoff/blog
Sep 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
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