Speakers at Google Developer Day

Learn first hand from leaders in the field of web application development. Here are just a few of the speakers who plan to be at Google Developer Day.

Ben Appleton

Ben is a software engineer in the Geo team. He currently leads Google's Maps API team, previously leading Mapplets and adding KML support to Google Maps. Ben joined Google in 2005, before which he obtained a PhD in image analysis at the University of Queensland.

Brett Slatkin

Brett Slatkin is a Software Engineer on the Google App Engine team. He formerly worked on Google's production server management and security systems. He lives in San Francisco.

Chris Prince

Chris Prince is a lead engineer on Google Gears. He previously worked on a number of Google's client products, including Toolbar and Desktop. Before Google, he helped develop the Xbox and Xbox 360 platforms at Microsoft.

Chris Schalk

Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs and technologies. He is currently engaging the international Web development community with the OpenSocial API. Chris has done extensive work with the adoption of OpenSocial in both the Indian and Japanese development communities. Chris also championed the creation of Google Technology User Groups (GTUGs), which now have several chapters internationally and hundreds of members. Before Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne.

Dan Morrill

Dan Morrill is a Developer Advocate for Google, where he helps developers build products with things like the Google Web Toolkit and Android. Before joining Google Developer Programs in 2006, he was a computer scientist at GE Research, where he gave himself headaches switching between JavaScript web development and integrated circuit design. Dan lives in San Francisco with his wife.

Dan Peterson

Dan Peterson is a product manager on Google's developer team, focusing on OpenSocial and Shindig. Previously, Dan led the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team during the transition to becoming an open source project and worked on Google's infrastructure team on web search and datacenter management. Dan earned a B.S. Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, as well as minors in Technology & Management and philosophy.

Dave Day

Dave Day is a software engineer who works on Mapplets and the Google Maps API out of the Sydney office. Dave graduated from the University of Sydney with BSc/BE (Hons), where he focused on Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and has previously worked in the power industry writing simulation and database software.

Dmitri Abramov

Dmitri is a software engineer in the Geo team currently working on Google Maps API implementation. Before joining Google in 2007 Dmitri worked as a developer on Microsoft Exchange Server and Macromedia Flash teams.

Jeff Fisher

Jeff Fisher works with the Google Data APIs, specifically Picasa Web Albums and YouTube. Previously, he worked with the Google Docs APIs. Jeff believes in short bios.

John Hjelmstad

John Hjelmstad is a software engineer at Google, currently serving as tech lead on gadgets and OpenSocial efforts within the company. He helped bootstrap the Shindig project's gadgets server, and continues to contribute to it along with the specifications for gadgets and OpenSocial. His previous Google work was in Google Apps, and before this worked at Amazon.com and A9.com in seller platform and local/maps teams, respectively. He received his BS in Computer Science from Stanford University in 2002.

Lars Rasmussen

Lars Eilstrup Rasmussen is a member of Google's technical staff and a lead engineer of the team that created Google Maps. He currently works out of Google's young but growing Sydney engineering office and is actively working to expand Google's engineering presence in Australia. Lars holds a Ph.D. in theoretical computer science from the University of California at Berkeley, which nominated his thesis on approximate counting for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award. In early 2003, Lars co-founded with his brother Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen a mapping-related startup, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October of 2004.

Mike Jones

Mike began his career working on CRM integration technologies for large technical call centers, and later as a technical integration consultant for many large ISP's in North America and Europe. He's worked as a senior engineer on the Google Apps team for 3 years now, specialising in API development, particularly on our Authentication, User Management, and GMail subsystems.

Mike received his B.A. in Philosophy and B.S. in Computer Science from Trinity University.

Shawn Shen

Shawn Shen joined Google in 2008 and is currently a Developer Programs Tech Lead. Before Google, he worked at Yahoo, Ariba, eBay and WebEx. He received his Ph.D from Texas A&M University.

Tom Stocky

Tom leads the team of product managers who work on Google's developer products. He was part of the teams that launched Google App Engine, Google AJAX Search API v1.0, and a handful of other APIs and tools. Prior to Google, Tom was a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, which included work on computational linguistics and user interfaces for mobile phones. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan, as well as a BS and MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.