Zach Clewell
Software Engineer L5 at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZach Clewell is a software engineer with nine years' experience specializing in embedded firmware and algorithms for resource-constrained wearable devices, now at Google as an L5. He has a strong track record in sensor integration, power optimization, and shipping multiple consumer wearables, pairing efficient, reusable code with cross-functional collaboration. His career progressed from embedded internships to senior roles at Motorola Solutions and rapid promotions at Google, reflecting both hands-on delivery and growing system-level ownership. A CS graduate from UIUC based in Mountain View, he combines low-level firmware expertise with practical mobile and Android experience from earlier roles. Notably, he focuses on solving power and sensing trade-offs—an often-overlooked but critical aspect of making wearables reliable in the real world.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Crystal Lake South High SchoolBachelor’s Degree of Science Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree of Science Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zclewell/zclewell.github.io
Feb 2017 - Feb 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 55 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
zclewell/Compressor
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 3 months
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