# Julius Elinson > Staff Software Engineer | Ex-Google Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/juliuselinson Staff Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience at Google delivering global-scale systems across identity, deep-fake detection, regulatory compliance, and ML quality. Known for driving technical strategy in ambiguous, cross-org problem spaces, with impact including 20x scaling efforts, eight-figure revenue launches, and ML systems achieving 94%/90% precision/recall. Technical Skills: Large-scale system and API design, ML quality evaluation and experimentation, regulatory-driven architecture. Proficient in C++. Experienced in Java and Python. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead Manager (TLM) | Payments Identity Verification @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Boulder, Colorado, United States - TLM for a team of 5 direct reports that grew identity verification for businesses 20x, increasing automation from 0% to 85% and expanding regional coverage 30%. Architected and launched 5 new verification techniques, designing system boundaries between the platform, clients and 3P data sources. Built the team and defined technical strategy as founding TL. - Set technical direction as project lead for the YouTube Likeness Detection launch to identify impersonator deep-fakes, overseeing execution for 20 person working group across 3 product areas with VP-level visibility. - Technical partner lead across 3 SVP-level organizations (Ads, Play and YouTube), excelling in stakeholder management. Led responses to critical partner escalations, influenced cross-team roadmaps, and served as area expert, reviewing 200+ technical and product design documents annually. - Payments lead for Google-wide compliance with Digital Services Act (DSA) verification regulation, architecting E2E design to support 1M+ Play and Chrome Webstore developers onboarding annually, adhering to strict product and regulatory requirements. - Built and scaled high-performing team of 5 engineers, including 2 promotions and zero attrition. Promoted to Staff/TLM in Oct 2023 ### Senior Software Engineer | Geo Machine Intelligence @ Google Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | Boulder, Colorado, United States - Project lead for geolocating and deriving semantics of 10M+ street signs and traffic lights for use in consumer and enterprise Google Maps, meeting strict quality SLIs with 3P automobile manufacturers. - Delivered by designing a semi-automated pipeline to combine ML with manual curation, along with continuous quality analyses and improvements. Achieved 94%/90% precision/recall with flat ops budget. - Owner of high-performance C++ devtool used by 4 teams to run ML batch processing of billions of geo data signals, including satellite and Street View data, with support for black-box optimizations of data quality. ### Senior Software Engineer | Travel Search @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California, United States - Led 6 search quality launches, securing VP-level approval and driving $65M+ annual revenue. - Fast-tracked promotion path: Software Engineer (L3) to Senior Software Engineer (L5) in 3 years. ### Software Engineer @ Room 77 Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Mountain View Full-stack engineer at a travel search start-up. Acquired by Google Travel Search. ### Quantitative Analyst Intern @ Citi Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY Designed scenario analysis tool for evaluating and visualizing risk measures of exotic credit derivatives. Delivered tool that became the supervising trader's primary means of portfolio analysis. ### Information Security Engineer Intern @ MITRE Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | McLean, VA Researched and implemented algorithms for face recognition software in C++; improved Principle Component Analysis (PCA) rank one true accept rate by 17%; achieved 60% rank one true accept rate for profile ear recognition through Hausdorff distance metric. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science in Joint Mathematics and Computer Science Harvey Mudd College ### Honors Regents Degree Millennium High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jelinson - Portfolio: https://jelinson.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/juliuselinson JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/juliuselinson/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29