Sander Bruens
Staff Software Engineer at Google DeepMind
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSander Bruens is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack, privacy- and safety-focused identity solutions at Google, currently working within DeepMind after leading efforts at Jigsaw and Google's Privacy, Safety & Security teams. He blends engineering discipline with legal and policy insight from earlier roles handling content removal and legal investigations, which gives him a rare lens for designing technically robust systems that respect regulatory and civil-society constraints. Based in New York, he has driven internal platforms for legal workflows and scalable products combating misinformation, censorship, and online threats. Sander’s background in international law and diplomacy informs his approach to security and product design, enabling pragmatic trade-offs between privacy, compliance, and usability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
LL.M. International Law European Law, LL.M. International Law European Law at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddBA Liberal Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences), BA Liberal Arts and Sciences (Social Sciences) at Maastricht UniversityUniversity of California, San Diego
Github Skills (84)
censorship-circumvention10
pii10
windows10
proxy10
security10
masking10
shuffle10
linux10
application-manager10
chromeos10
jigsaw10
electron10
proxy-server10
http-server10
android10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
sbruens/py-exercises
Apr 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
sbruens/ThreatExchange
Oct 2023 - May 2024
Trust & Safety tools for working together to fight digital harms.
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
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