September 22nd, 2011 – Lars Rasmussen – creator of Google Maps and Google Wave… and now a Director of Engineering at Facebook
This is one you won’t want to miss! Lars Rasmussen earned a PhD in theoretical computer science from UC Berkley. In early 2003 Lars co-founded with his brother Jens a mapping related start up, Where 2 Technologies, which was acquired by Google in October 2004. Lars became the lead engineer on the team that created Google Maps. He worked out of Google’s Sydney-based office and his team was responsible for the ahead-of-its-time Google Wave launched at Google IO 2009. He then decided to do what many Googlers have done, joined Facebook in December 2010 as a Director of Engineering. Come listen to the personal story of this brilliant engineer and entrepreneur who has lead software engineering at two of the biggest web titans. Details and Registration…
