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 with 23 years of experience building large-scale, privacy-focused systems at Google, where he leads the privacy labeling team and delivers compliance services used across the company. He combines deep expertise in cloud platforms (Google internal, GCP, OVHCloud), data pipelines, and European privacy law (GDPR, DMA) to turn complex legal requirements into auditable, production-grade services. Known for cross-functional collaboration with PMs, legal teams and storage/processing engineers, he has improved tooling and deployment workflows that scale to global storage systems. A long-time functional programming advocate and former OCamlCore CEO and Debian contributor, he brings fast prototyping instincts and a strong open-source mindset to large enterprise challenges. Based in Zurich, he blends systems-level rigor with practical product delivery, often surfacing privacy trade-offs that non-specialists miss.
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 (72)
opam10
package-repository10
dune10
oasis10
ocaml10
lwt10
apachebench9
parser9
puppet8
markdown8
load-generator8
http8
forge8
vault7
secrets6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
gildor478/ocaml-xdg-basedir
Dec 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2 releases, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 9 years 3 months
gildor478/opam-build-revdeps
Oct 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 release, 71 commits, 88 pushes in 17 days
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