Vic Gundotra
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| Vic Gundotra | |
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| Born | June 14, 1968 [1] |
| Residence | California, United States |
| Occupation | Vice President of Engineering at Google |
| Children | Samantha |
Vic Gundotra (born June 14, 1968), is Vice-President of Engineering for Google and was previously a general manager at Microsoft.
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[edit] Career
Gundotra joined Microsoft in 1991 and eventually became General Manager of Platform Evangelism. His duties included promoting Microsoft's APIs and platforms to independent developers and helping to develop a strategy for Windows Live online services to compete with Google's web-based software applications.[2]
Gundotra joined Google in June 2007, after taking a one-year delay working on charitable endeavors due to a Microsoft employee non-compete agreement. His responsibilities as Vice-President of Engineering include Google's mobile phone applications, and its developer efforts, including OpenSocial, Google Gadgets, Google Gears, Android, and the more than 40 product APIs Google exposes.
[edit] Awards
In 2003, Gundotra was honored by Technology Review magazine in its Top 100 Young Innovator list (age under 35) for his contribution to Microsoft .NET Framework.[3]
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[edit] External links
- Thomas, Owen (2006-06-29). "Microsoft exec jumps to Google". CNN Money. http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/29/technology/msft_brain_drain.biz2/.
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