Summary
Raynald Chung is a senior software engineer with 12 years’ experience building privacy, abuse prevention, and user-generated content systems across large-scale products at Google, DeepMind and Booking.com. He combines strong academic foundations from ETH Zürich with hands-on expertise in backend systems, distributed streaming (Kafka), JVM languages (Java, Kotlin, Scala), and privacy-focused services. At Google he’s contributed to Gemini and YouTube Trust & Safety features, and at Schibsted and Booking built DevOps, testing and content pipelines that balance scalability with user safety. He has a practical curiosity for emerging tech—experimenting with Solidity smart contracts and internal tooling—and a track record of turning research-grade ideas into production services. Based in Switzerland, Raynald brings a data-driven, security-minded engineering approach to complex content and recall problems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at ETH Zürich
Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology, Bachelor's degree Computer Science and Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese, German, Spanish, French