Lorenz Nickel
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenz Nickel is a software engineer with eight years’ experience building consumer-facing Android and Wear OS features at Google and YouTube, currently focused on YouTube Live experience and monetization. He brings a pragmatic, Kotlin-first approach to readability and platform integration, having led readability efforts and shipped Calendar and Gmail features for Wear OS. His background includes early industry roles and internships at SAP, Siemens, and AutoScout24, grounded in a Computer Science degree from TUM. Beyond product code, he has contributed technical writing to the MDN Web Docs project, improving API and glossary documentation—an indication of his attention to clarity and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Technical University of Munich
English, German, French
Github Skills (5)
html10
web-development10
documentation10
javascript4
css4
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
mdn/content
Oct 2021 - Nov 2021
The content behind MDN Web Docs
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:2 reviews, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 17 days
Contributions summary:Lorenz's contributions primarily focused on improving the clarity and accuracy of the documentation within the MDN Web Docs repository. Their commits addressed grammar issues, typos, and the removal of duplicate information across various documentation pages. The user edited entries in the glossary, API references, and guidelines, contributing to the overall quality and readability of the web development documentation.
cssjavascriptreferencefundamentalsmdn
LorenzNickel/java-fundamentals
May 2020 - Feb 2022
Common algorithms, data structures and design pattern implemented in Java.
Contributions:19 reviews, 50 PRs, 90 pushes in 1 year 9 months
design-patternalgorithms-and-data-structuresdata-algorithmsdata-structuresjava
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