Vic Gundotra (born June 14, 1968), is Vice-President of Engineering for Google and was previously a general manager at Microsoft.
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, and the more than 40 product APIs Google exposes.
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]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Vic Gundotra Profile, CrunchBase
- ↑ Boutin, Paul (2006-06-03). "Where's My Google PC?". Slate.
- ↑ "Vic Gundotra, 34. Sparked Microsofts change to .Net". Technology Review.
External links[]
- Thomas, Owen (2006-06-29). "Microsoft exec jumps to Google". CNN Money.
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