Phil Fritzsche
Senior Manager, Google Photos
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolPhil Fritzsche is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of experience building developer productivity, cloud storage, and consumer-facing products; he currently leads the Google Photos engineering team responsible for curating and adding “magic” to users’ memories. His background spans hands-on product and platform roles at Google and Amazon, from launching and scaling AmazonSmile to driving developer tooling and documentation for Google Cloud. Phil blends strategic leadership (chief of staff and org-building roles) with deep technical chops—early work includes backend contributions to Google Person Finder improving spam/abuse detection and safe deletion flows. Based in Seattle, he is known for turning complex distributed systems and developer workflows into reliable, automatable processes that accelerate delivery and reduce incidents.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Computer Science and Mathematics, B.A., Computer Science and Mathematics at Connecticut College
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Github Skills (16)
web-development10
google-app-engine10
web-application10
webapp10
python10
databases9
database9
testing8
http6
asynchronous6
bitmap6
android-image6
android6
image-scaling6
multithreading6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/personfinder
Nov 2010 - Dec 2010
Person Finder is a searchable missing person database written in Python and hosted on App Engine.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:23 commits in 28 days
Contributions summary:Phil's contributions centered on enhancing the backend functionality of the Person Finder application. They added features related to spam and abuse detection for notes, and implemented a mechanism that allows all users to delete person records. They also introduced a delayed deletion feature, creating tombstones for records before permanent removal. The user's work included modifying core files and tests for these features.
appenginedatabasepython
GoogleCloudPlatform/vision-how-happy-python
Jun 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 2 years 10 months
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