Summary
Christian Sonntag is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google with over 18 years of experience building large-scale, user-facing systems and infrastructure. He currently leads engineering for Food and Dining experiences on Google.com and Maps, with a track record of shipping food ordering and discovery features at global scale. Previously he led networking optimization for Project Fi and was a technical lead on the Play store, Android services, and the security-sensitive Google Health backend. His background includes scaling bioinformatics platforms and re-architecting high-performance J2EE systems early in his career, demonstrating both domain breadth and deep systems expertise. Based in San Francisco, he combines hands-on engineering with cross-team coordination to deliver resilient, high-availability services. A practical problem-solver, he often operates at the intersection of product, security, and scalable backend architecture.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Diploma at Heidelberg University