Michelle Scharfstein
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMichelle Scharfstein is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems at Google, currently shaping algorithmic radio and mixes for YouTube Music. She combines a strong data and analytics background from her time leading multi-terabyte analyses and client-facing experimentation work at Applied Predictive Technologies with hands-on full‑stack and API design expertise. Michelle has driven cross-team integrations, launched external-facing APIs to improve ad revenue compliance, and productionalized multiple services with robust testing and monitoring. She pairs product-minded engineering—owning admin and user-facing features during a government-facing COVID SWAT fellowship—with operational rigor as a 24/7 on-call engineer. Known for mentoring and rapid promotion cycles, she brings both technical depth and the ability to translate analytical insights into business impact. Based in New York, she’s passionate about harnessing data to inform better decisions and thrives at the intersection of data, product, and reliable systems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Operations Research, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Operations Research at Princeton University
Hebrew, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
nodejs7
sql6
sqlite6
javascript6
microsoft-sql-server5
orm5
typescript5
graph5
mysql5
postgresql5
visualization4
mariadb4
svg4
mssql4
react4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
grace-shopper/icecream
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:104 commits, 59 PRs, 70 pushes in 9 days
google-org/new-project-ny
Apr 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:78 PRs, 127 pushes, 68 branches in 2 months
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