Philip Zembrod
Software Engineer at Google
Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Zembrod is a versatile infrastructure software engineer with 10+ years at Google, now based in Bavaria, Germany, who excels at turning ambiguous problems into robust, long-lived systems. He moves quickly in unfamiliar codebases to contribute in harmony with existing designs and has led teams and projects across time zones and continents as both tech lead and manager. Philip is passionate about code quality and project health, with experience creating maintainable products and spreading best practices in consulting roles. As an active contributor to high-profile open-source work, he has helped modernize Bazel internals by migrating ObjC providers to Starlark and advancing multi-architecture C/C++ linking support. His background in physics informs a methodical, detail-oriented approach to large-system design and deep technical dives when needed.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Physics, Diploma Physics at The University of FreiburgCarl-Duisberg-Schule
German, English, Swedish
Github Skills (6)
starlark10
build-system10
bazel10
c-language8
objective-c8
cprogramming-language8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bazelbuild/bazel
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
a fast, scalable, multi-language and extensible build system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 3 PRs, 55 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Philip primarily focused on migrating code related to the Objc provider from native implementation to Starlark. This involved refactoring tests, modifying core Apple configuration files, and updating module map generation. Furthermore, the user contributed to the codebase by starlarkifying the subtraction of CcLinkingContexts as part of the multi-architecture binary support. The changes demonstrate a focus on build system internals and the transition to Starlark-based rule definitions.
scalablecorrectbazelmulti-languagebuild-system
pzembrod/VolksForth
Apr 2022 - Sep 2022
volksFORTH is a 16bit Forth System maintained by the German Forth Gesellschaft e.V.
Contributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 158 pushes in 5 months
16bitforth
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