Leif Schelin
Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolLeif Schelin is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience, currently at Google DeepMind after a long tenure at Google where he advanced from intern to senior engineer. He combines a strong analytical mindset and exceptional memory with meticulous, structured work habits developed through studies in chemistry and computer science at Chalmers and Uppsala. Comfortable stepping into leadership roles, he focuses on enabling teams to function smoothly while personally preferring deep technical specialization—especially where mathematics and rigorous analysis meet software engineering. His background ranges from hands-on field support and teaching to large-scale engineering at a leading AI lab, reflecting both practical versatility and research-oriented depth. Based in Switzerland, he brings a rare blend of classroom teaching, hardware troubleshooting, and product-scale software experience to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
IT, IT at Jönköpings Tekniska HögskolaErik DahlbergsgymnasietCivilingenjör, IT, Civilingenjör, IT at Chalmers tekniska högskola / Chalmers University of TechnologyChemistry, Chemistry at Uppsala universitet
Swedish, English
Github Skills (13)
nim-lang6
latex6
thread5
python5
regular-expression5
machine-learning4
backtracking4
c-library4
editor4
perl4
cpp3
pcre2
re22
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HalfLeif/CNN_doc_extraction
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:120 pushes, 11 branches in 4 months
HalfLeif/Master-Thesis---Waypointing
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:181 pushes, 98 branches in 4 months
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