[email protected] Tobias Thierer +44 7477 195 651

Software Engineer, Present Android Core Libraries London, United Kingdom 04/2016 Individual Contributor & Tech Lead/Manager. Promoted to Staff Software Engineer.

Leading Android’s Core Libraries: Android SDK’s java.* , crypto & secure

networking / TLS, i18n & Unicode, compiler toolchain. Contributing to AOSP and

upstream open source projects (OpenJDK, OkHttp, Okio, Conscrypt, ICU).

android | java | core library infrastructure | people management | | github

04/2016 app for Android Sydney, Australia 08/2010 Individual Contributor & Tech Lead/Manager. Promoted to Senior Software Engineer. Developed the Google Drive app from scratch and grew to 1B+ installs.

android app | java | client side & front-end | people management

08/2010 Google Wave backend Sydney, Australia 06/2008 Member of the Wave Server team. Responsible for scaling, storage backend, misc. java | megastore | server-side backend | distributed systems | scaling

Software Developer, Biomatters Ltd. 06/2008 Geneious (Bioinformatics Software) Christchurch, New Zealand 03/2006 Member of startup, developed desktop software for bioinformatics/genetics research. java | desktop | cross-platform | algorithms | research | plugin architecture design

Software Development Intern, IBM 09/2005 Extreme Blue Internship Program Böblingen, Germany 07/2005 Team of four developed efficient SAX XML parser, 2.4x as fast as libxml2. C | embedded | XML | XPath

Programming Personal projects Languages Java ★★★★★ Mars View for Android Cardboard VR | GLES German ★★★★★ C/C++, Perl ★★☆☆☆ Mars Descent Imager JPEG 2000 | Deshaker English ★★★★☆ Python, JS ★☆☆☆☆ Climate Charts JavaScript | AngularJS French ★☆☆☆☆

Education 12/2005 Master of Science-equivalent (Diplom) in Computer Science (minor: Bioinformatics) 10/1999 University of Tübingen, Germany. Graduated with distinction, GPA of 1.0 on a scale from 1.0 (best) to 5.0 (worst). 11/2004 Master of Science in Mathematics 08/2003 University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Graduated with distinction (A+). 06/1999 High school diploma (Abitur), Germany GPA of 1.2 on a scale from 1.0 (best) to 6.0 (worst). Majors: Mathematics, Biology.

Awards and Scholarships 10/1999 Silver Medallist, International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Turkey. 09/1999 Silver Medallist, Central European Olympiad in Informatics (CEOI), Czech Republic. 05/1998 Contestant (one out of four representing Germany), CEOI, Croatia. 10/1997 National Champion (Bundessieger), Federal Computer Science Competition (Bundeswettbewerb Informatik), Germany.

08/2004 New Zealand Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. 09/2003 Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. 12/2005 German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes). 10/1997 Federally-funded scholarship awarded to the top 0.3% of German students.