Robert Banz
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRobert Banz is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Zurich with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, primarily at Google where he progressed from Site Reliability Engineer to senior technical leadership in privacy and storage. He combines deep Unix/Linux systems expertise and low-level languages like C++ with practical scripting in Python, Perl, and shell to drive reliable, distributed systems. As a tech lead and former manager in Privacy Engineering, he blends operational rigor with privacy-aware architecture and cross-functional influence. His background includes directing computing infrastructure at UMBC, reflecting long-term stewardship of production environments and teams. Colleagues value his knack for translating complex infrastructure constraints into pragmatic engineering and policy decisions. He brings a rare mix of systems-level fluency and leadership that surfaces subtle trade-offs others often miss.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
UMBCGithub contributions (2)
robertbanz/photon
Jun 2015 - Oct 2019
Contributions:132 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 4 months
robertbanz/photon_gamma
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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