Dusan Zelembaba
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
Dusan was at Google for seven years, progressing from a new grad to managing a team of 10 as a staff software developer. He has specialized in building maintainable and scalable back-end infrastructures across Google Ads and Cloud APIs, and his domain expertise is in healthcare and retail, where he has worked with many clients and built dedicated products. As a proven team lead and architect, Dusan works closely with teams to architect, build, and maintain solutions to ambiguous problems.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Google Cloud, Go, C++, Java, Containers, SaaS, Big Data
The most amazing...
...product I've created is the Google Cloud Healthcare API, which is being used by top providers like Mayo Clinic.
Work Experience
Staff Software Developer
- Managed infrastructure and machine learning teams comprising 10 engineers focusing on Google Cloud’s Product Discovery Suite for retailers.
- Owned core areas of recommendation and search products, such as data pipelines and measurement, and incubating new product offerings related to personalization.
- Collaborated with product managers and executive leadership to evaluate and prioritize investments in new product offerings.
Senior Software Developer
- Served as the medical imaging engineering lead for the Cloud Healthcare API, a first of its kind.
- Managed a storage solution for healthcare-specific data formats (such as FHIR, HL7, and DICOM) used by leading healthcare institutions, including Mayo Clinic.
- Grew the team from inception to seven people, owning day-to-day management, roadmap planning, and coordinating with the rest of the organization, including leadership, the broader engineering team, product, and sales.
Software Developer
- Served as a member of the team that brought Google Shopping Ads inventory to surfaces beyond search, such as Google Now, YouTube, and Display.
- Built out data pipelines to process billions of items (such as emails, web pages, and YouTube videos) to extract shopping entities (such as specific products, shopping intent, and product categories), leveraging technologies like MapReduce and Flume.
- Maintained a package tracking service that monitored the shipping status of packages across 5+ shipping companies and powered services like the “Your order is shipped” card in Google Now.
Experience
Cloud Healthcare API
https://cloud.google.com/healthcare/Skills
Languages
Go, C++, Java, SQL
Paradigms
REST, MapReduce, Management
Storage
Google Cloud, Google Cloud Spanner, Google Cloud Storage, Databases
Other
DICOM, Technical Leadership, Architecture, SaaS, Big Data, Containers, Statistics, Image Compression
Tools
Flume
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Waterloo - Waterloo, ON, Canada
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