# Mark Knichel

> Principal Software Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/markknichel

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Vercel
Jan 2022 – Present
Leading a team to improve development workflows for engineers building web applications.

### Software Engineer @ Independent Contractor
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Principal Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Area Tech Lead for counter abuse protections (phishing, malware, spam, violent extremism, etc.) and abuse machine learning infrastructure within Google's core counter abuse team. We built reusable abuse protections for teams across Google and worked with large Google products (Gmail, Drive, etc.) on abuse protections specific to their product.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020
TLM on a product using machine learning in healthcare applications. https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.250/

### Principal Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2010 – Jan 2018
Built frameworks and tools to help developers across Google build better servers and web applications, focusing on dev productivity, correctness, scalability, performance, and security. Started and grew the web-specific team from scratch originally with just 1 product and grew the team to work with teams all across Google.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010
Joined Google on the Gmail team, working on frontend UI.


## Education
### Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania

### Bachelor's of Science in Economics in Financial Statistics
The Wharton School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mark-knichel-336148228

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Last updated: 2026-04-11