Jelle Foks
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Belmont, California, United States
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Top SchoolJelle Foks is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience, currently building scalable systems at Google after several years driving innovation on YouTube. Trained as an electrical engineer (MSc, University of Twente), he brings deep DSP and embedded-systems roots from early roles and co-founding Taronga Technology, blending hardware-aware thinking with modern software engineering. His career spans startup and large-platform environments, delivering signal-processing and design engineering solutions across companies from Frontier Design to Observision and VDG-Security. At Google he leverages that cross-domain expertise to ship production-grade systems at scale, often bridging low-level engineering and product-facing features. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys getting under the hood—evidenced by a playful technical signature in his profile hinting at kernel/module familiarity. Based in Belmont, California, he combines decades of applied engineering with a penchant for systems-level detail.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Electrical Engineering, Master, Electrical Engineering at University of Twentehigh school, VWO, high school, VWO at Lorentz Lyceum
English, Dutch, German, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
sandbox10
cobalt10
cpp10
youtube10
html6
corebluetooth6
git-diff6
php6
bluetooth-low-energy6
forms6
android6
bluetooth6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jellefoks/cobalt
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Cobalt is a lightweight HTML5 application container
Contributions:470 pushes, 142 branches in 1 year 10 months
jellefoks/cobalt_sandbox
Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
Cobalt dev workflow sandbox - this repo exists only as a prototype and will get rewritten. Please see http://cobalt.dev
Contributions:3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 days
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