Yohann Coppel is a seasoned engineering leader with 15+ years building large-scale distributed systems, search ranking, and compiler infrastructure, having led teams and shipped Google Search and Google Health features used by billions. He has a rare blend of deep systems and programming-language expertise—compiler construction, type systems and build/tooling—applied to mission-critical products including COVID-19 response and FHIR-based health work. At Google he founded and grew engineering teams; more recently he helped build Gemini infrastructure at DeepMind and now focuses on core AI training and inference infrastructure at a startup. Based in Zug and active across Rust, Go, TypeScript and modern CI/CD tooling, he combines hands-on engineering with pragmatic architecture and an appetite for exploring new languages and developer workflows.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer science, Bachelor Computer science at Tecnológico de Monterrey
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at EPFL
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