Miguel Vilela
Senior Staff Technical Solutions Engineer, Google Maps Platform
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMiguel Vilela is a Senior Staff Technical Solutions Engineer at Google Maps Platform with 17 years of experience turning complex geospatial products into reliable, customer-ready services. He specializes in supportability, launch engineering and cross-team coordination, having led numerous backend migrations and driven near-zero customer impact for core Geocoding, Search and Routing APIs. Miguel distilled his institutional knowledge into a widely used Supportability checklist and authored technical guidance such as the Plus Codes support implementation, balancing product design with operational realities. Based in Zurich, he combines a strong engineering foundation in Linux and systems administration with a mathematician’s rigor to root-cause stubborn bugs and de-risk large-scale launches. Quietly influential, he’s known for empowering global support teams through training, tooling and clear troubleshooting playbooks.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics, Mathematics at Universidad de La Laguna
English, Spanish, German
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Github Skills (42)
javascript10
api10
google10
google-maps10
maps10
issue-tracking10
google-maps-api10
steam10
steamworks9
typescript9
proton9
compatibility9
wine9
lego-mindstorms-ev38
linux8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
miguev/learning_terraform
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
Contributions:22 pushes in 1 day
miguev/js-samples
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
Samples for the Google Maps JavaScript v3 API
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
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