Paween Itthipalkul
Software Engineering Manager at Google DeepMind
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolPaween Itthipalkul is a seasoned software engineering manager based in San Francisco with 8+ years building native mobile platforms and multiplatform infrastructure at Google and prior product experience at Amazon Music. He currently leads core client architecture and developer tooling for Google Chat and Gemini Automation Frontend, driving cross-platform frameworks that enable faster, higher-quality feature delivery across Android, iOS and web. Technically fluent in Swift, Objective-C, Java, C and Python, Paween moves comfortably between hands-on engineering and people leadership, having served as a tech lead and staff engineer on Google Voice iOS. He also maintains the well-known libPhoneNumber-iOS port, contributing short-number and emergency-number support that demonstrates deep protocol and metadata expertise. An MBA from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business complements his technical background, helping him align engineering strategy with product and business priorities. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic builder who simplifies complex infrastructure to empower feature teams.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at University of San FranciscoMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business
Thai, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (9)
libphonenumber10
objective-c10
ios10
cocoapods10
api8
apim8
api-design8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iziz/libPhoneNumber-iOS
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
iOS port from libphonenumber (Google's phone number handling library)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 12 reviews, 86 commits in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paween primarily contributed to enhancing the `libphonenumber-ios` library by adding support for short numbers and emergency numbers. Their work involved porting the `ShortNumberInfo` class from the Java version of the library into a category on the `NBPhoneNumberUtil` class. This involved significant code changes, including modifying the `NBGeneratedPhoneNumberMetaData.h` file and other related files to incorporate new metadata. The user also integrated and resolved merge conflicts.
cocoapodsobjective-cphone-numberphonegoogle-libphonenumber
paween/libPhoneNumber-iOS
Dec 2017 - Aug 2018
iOS port from libphonenumber (Google's phone number handling library)
Contributions:17 pushes, 10 branches in 8 months
phone-numberphonegoogle-libphonenumberlibphonenumberhandling
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