Sylvain Le Gall
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSylvain Le Gall is a Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with 22 years of experience building large-scale cloud and data systems at Google. He led end-to-end development of privacy compliance services that monitor storage across Google, coordinating closely with PMs, Legal, and multiple storage teams while serving as a team privacy expert. His technical strengths include cloud platforms (Google internal, GCP, OVHCloud), data analysis pipelines, and deep familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as GDPR and DMA. At Google he improved tooling for data labeling and previously led Travel Logs metrics for Flight Search; earlier roles include cutting an analysis toolchain from a week to a day and developing GIS libraries for portable devices. A long-time open-source contributor and former Debian developer and OCamlCore CEO, he organized OCaml workshops and favors functional fast-prototyping in production systems. He blends legal-savvy compliance engineering with hands-on systems optimization and a pragmatic functional-programming background.
23 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
PCSI/PC*, PCSI/PC* at Lycée Saint LouisEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at École PolytechniqueEngineer, Computer Science, Engineer, Computer Science at Télécom ParisIND
English, German, French
Github Skills (130)
padding10
opam10
package-repository10
dune10
cabal10
hash10
ocaml10
package-manager10
sha210
keccak10
sha51210
reason-react10
hmac10
shake9
apachebench9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gildor478/ocaml-markdown
Aug 2010 - Dec 2019
Markdown parser and printer
Contributions:1 release, 37 commits, 1 PR in 9 years 5 months
markdownmarkdown-parserprinterparser
gildor478/opam-build-revdeps
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 71 commits, 88 pushes in 17 days
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