Torsten Rohlfing
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Saratoga, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTorsten Rohlfing is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with over a decade of experience building search and data-driven platforms, currently focused on the rating platform in Search. He progressed through senior engineering and leadership roles across Search Ranking and Geo Search, blending hands-on systems design with team leadership in data science and engineering. His background includes academic and research roles in biomedical image analysis and NIH-funded projects, reflecting a strong foundation in rigorous, measurement-driven problem solving. Torsten contributes to open-source work such as UI and RTL improvements for the widely used Blockly-Android project, demonstrating attention to both UX and internationalization. Based in Saratoga, CA, he combines deep research roots (PhD-level training) with scalable product engineering at Google, often tackling cross-disciplinary challenges that bridge modeling, platformization, and user-facing quality.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Computer Science, MSc, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Technische Universität Berlin
English, German
Github Skills (6)
javas10
user-interface10
android-sdk10
ui-design10
android-development10
java10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
google/blockly-android
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Blockly for Android
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:239 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
Contributions summary:Torsten primarily focused on updating the UI of the Blockly-Android project by implementing new coordinate systems and refactoring existing code to use them. These changes involved modifications to several core files, including the UI and model components of the system. The user also fixed layout issues and improved the rendering of the block connectors. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the block group layout by correctly setting sizes and also by refactoring for RTL language support.
kotlinandroidblockly
rohlfingt/blockly-android
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 day
kotlinandroidblockly
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