About Patrik



I’m a software engineer turned engineering manager with 20+ years of experience in getting innovative projects started, established, and scaled up.

I spent 20 years with Google Switzerland, 17 thereof as an engineering manager:

Selected Projects and Experience

Travel Impact Model - Started project to add CO2 emission data to Google Flight Search from voluntary contribution and grew into a project with 20+ FTE engineers and a de-facto industry-wide standard used across the whole industry and serving 65B queries (and still counting). travelimpactmodel.org

Google Shopping, Data Quality and Policy Enforcement - Scale up operations from 3 to 50+ engineers, and 1 to 150+ manual raters. Reduce visible price error rate from 20+% to less than 2%. Roll out unified tooling across all functions (eng, support, sales) for operational management of the data, that was used by 6000+ unique internal users. shopping.google.com

Google, Pension Fund Committee (Personal Vorsorgekommission) - Design of the pension fund solution for Google Switzerland, and supervision of the operations. Deep understanding of the pension and swiss social security system.

Lecturer and Teacher - I’ve always enjoyed teaching. I tought the core “operating system” lecture at ETH-Z, and introduction to C# at the Fachhoschule Nordwest, and I established the first onboarding classes for Google Zurich.

Recent Appearances

11/2024 Podium Ticino Partner Day

11/2023 Podium St. Gallen University - Zukunft der Mobilität

06/2023 Presentation Möbius Lugano: Patrik Reali di Google Svizzera per viaggi sempre più sostenibili

06/2023 Article CdT: Viaggi ed emissioni «Così Google educa sul clima»: successo mondiale per un’iniziativa svizzera

12/2022 Article CdT: Attualità: cervelli ticinesi reclutati da Google

Article about.google So ambitioniert wie die Mondlandung

Selected Passions

Cooking - Algorithms with great benefits. See some of my favorite recipes .

Education

2003 PhD in Computer Science, ETH Zurich

1995 Dipl. Inf-Eng, ETH Zurich