Robin Schlinkert is a product leader and consultant based in Brussels who blends technical rigor from a DPhil in Biochemistry/Biophysics with hands-on product experience across consumer and enterprise internet products. He currently shapes DuckDuckGo’s mobile apps to be privacy-first primary browsers, drawing on prior senior roles at Trainline and Google where he led multi-disciplinary teams to simplify UX, improve performance, and scale products to billions of users. His background spans strategy, operations and monetization—from Google ad products and publisher sales to building engagement teams that raised retention and sign-in rates. Comfortable at the intersection of data, engineering and customer experience, he has a track record of turning complex systems into streamlined, measurable products. Colleagues would note his uncommon combination of academic depth, consulting discipline from McKinsey, and product execution in both startup-like and global company contexts.
3 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Gesamtschule Osnabrueck Schinkel
DPhil Biochemistry / Biophysics, DPhil Biochemistry / Biophysics at University of Oxford
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