Alastair Tse
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Alastair Tse

Imagining Engineering in Tokyo, He him

Hosting our fourth Geo Tokyo Meetup on April 18. meetup.com/geotokyo/event…

3 years ago

About

Design-Adjacent Engineer. Currently prototyping minimalist product concepts with ML.

Projects

2023
Prototyping Lead at Google, Insight UX

Building a concept prototyping team where we take interesting but ill-defined ideas and make them real. Then throw them away, rinse and repeat.

2021
Maps Reviews, Photos and Content at Google

Led team that built and maintained Google Local Reviews, Photo posting and other user-generated content for four years. During this time we went from worrying about places with no photos to places with too many photos.

2013

Part of the team that came up with the design system, initially for a few Google products, then the whole of Google, then releasing everything publicly and open source.

2008
Google Search App at Google

Shipped Google's first iOS app, within 3-months at the launch of the App Store.

Side Projects

2022

Mapping out all 500+ ski resorts in Japan.

2020

Developer and Maintainer in collaboration with Shane Reustle providing aggregated COVID19 data for Japan.

Work Experience

2022 — Now
Engineer at Google, Insight + Innovation
Tokyo

Long term future product & concept ideation.

2017 — 2021
Engineering Manager at Google
Tokyo

Led Google Maps' UGC teams
Area Tech Lead on Google Maps (UGC) Frontend Engineering

2011 — 2017
Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York

Built and led Google UI and Sign In Frameworks for iOS
Built and led Material Design Engineering team.

2007 — 2011
Senior Software Engineer at Google
London

Built and led Google's first iOS app (Google App)
TL on Chrome iOS

Contact

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