Julia Proskurnia
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Uitikon, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJulia Proskurnia is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience blending AI research and production-grade engineering, currently leading Cloud and on-device speech quality and custom speech models at Google from her base in Uitikon, Zurich. She holds a PhD in Computer Science from EPFL and has a strong background in distributed systems, machine learning, and personalization—work that began in academic research on online collective behavior and evolved into shipping features like Gmail SmartCompose and Assistant dictation formatting. At Google she has progressed from research intern to technical lead roles, bridging low-latency, scalable system design with applied ML for speech and typing products. Julia’s career shows a pattern of solving high-impact engineering problems end-to-end—from architecting Byzantine-tolerant distributed frameworks and sub-100µs data stores to productionizing ML-driven user experiences. She combines rigorous academic training with product-focused delivery and an uncommon mix of experience across financial analytics, large-scale distributed systems, and speech AI.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Distributed Computing, Master's degree Distributed Computing at Universidad Politécnica de CatalunyaMaster's degree Distributed Computing, Master's degree Distributed Computing at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at EPFLIgor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute
English, French, Russian, German, UkrainianGithub contributions (5)
toluolll/toluolll.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
toluolll/www2017petitions
Jan 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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