Summary
Ludmila Glinskih is a software engineer in Zurich with 11 years of experience bridging theoretical computer science and production systems, currently building YouTube Ads bidding at Google. She holds a PhD in theoretical CS from Boston University and has a strong research background in differential privacy, circuit and meta-complexity from roles at BU, the Simons Institute, and Tumult Labs. At Google she has repeatedly turned privacy research into production tooling—authoring C++ and Go implementations for differential privacy components in ZetaSQL, Cobalt, and telemetry systems. Her career also includes SRE and QA work that sharpened her systems-thinking and robustness-first approach to large-scale services. She maintains an academic-profile website with publications and research details, signaling a continued commitment to advancing both theory and applied privacy engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Theoretical Computer Science, Master's degree, Theoretical Computer Science at St. Petersburg Academic University of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Санкт-Петербургский Государственный Политехнический Университет
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Theoretical Computer Science at Boston University
English, Russian, German