Rastislav Lenhardt
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Adliswil, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolRastislav Lenhardt is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing high-performance algorithms and systems, currently working on Google's Knowledge/Search team in Zurich. He holds an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Oxford and a BSc from Univerzita Komenského, combining deep academic rigor with production-grade engineering. Early in his career he implemented Gipfeli, a single-core compression algorithm noted for exceeding 200 MB/s, and has improved Datalog query engines used for static program analysis. His background spans low-level algorithm design, scalable search infrastructure, and enterprise J2EE applications, giving him a rare full-spectrum perspective. Colleagues describe him as someone who seeks out challenging problems and crafts novel algorithmic solutions rather than relying on off-the-shelf approaches. Based in Adliswil, Zurich, he brings a blend of research-first thinking and pragmatic delivery to large-scale search and knowledge systems.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science, BSc, Computer Science at Univerzita Komenského v BratislaveMSc, Maths and Computer Science, MSc, Maths and Computer Science at University of Oxford
English, Slovak, German
Github Skills (2)
react8
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
google/gipfeli
Jun 2014 - Aug 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 2 months
verejnedigital/verejne.digital
Nov 2016 - Sep 2022
Projekt verejne.digital má za cieľ aplikovať umelú inteligenciu na dáta zverejňované slovenskými verejnými inštitúciami.
Contributions:201 commits, 2 PRs, 219 pushes in 5 years 10 months
projektreacttitjavascriptcie
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