Zane Sterling
Software Engineer L4 SWE at Google
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolZane Sterling is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience, currently an L4 SWE at Google in Munich who combines deep systems experience with a long history of mentorship in math, physics, and computer science. His background includes internships at Facebook, Bloomberg, and early contributions to Google's Vanadium project working on tooling for a distributed asynchronous database, reflecting strength in distributed systems and developer tooling. A longtime educator and coach—from FIRST robotics machinist and operator to teaching crypto and Java via Minecraft—he brings a practical, hands-on approach to problem solving and product delivery. He consistently bridges research-y systems work and pragmatic engineering, and his career is marked by translating complex distributed problems into usable developer tools and reliable services.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Stuyvesant High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Stony Brook University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (88)
backend10
pm29
laravel9
emacs9
golang9
vim9
command-line-tool9
octobercms9
command-line9
php9
nodejs9
code-editor8
telegram-bot8
emacs-lsp8
melpa8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Shriken/parasite
Nov 2014 - Apr 2016
Contributions:159 commits, 30 pushes, 3 comments in 1 year 5 months
Hypersonic/FistDance
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:92 commits, 6 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 months
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